Wolfhunter River Quotes

“No, Kez, don’t pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“But Sam doesn’t need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Because what Miranda represents . . . it’s dead, as dead to me as Gwen’s marriage is to her. I tell myself that, even as I recognize that Melvin’s ghost has never stopped haunting either one of us. Dead doesn’t mean gone.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Dead doesn’t mean gone.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“It always is complicated, from the inside. People on the outside looking in seem to think it’s simple to cut ties, walk away . . . but there are so many ropes holding a person down. Children. Extended family. Friends. Jobs. Money. Obligations. Guilt. And fear, so much fear. The most dangerous time in any woman’s life is when she’s separating from a partner, particularly an abusive one. Women instinctively know that, even if they’ve never seen the blood-drenched statistics. Sometimes it feels safer to endure the devil you know.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“I’m fine,” I automatically tell her, because that’s what I always tell her. And myself. But it doesn’t take a paid psychologist to figure out that I’m not okay. I’m having flashbacks. Cold sweats. Nightmares. And now this”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“don’t pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“I want to pull the gun and empty the magazine into her straight, arrogant back. I don’t.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“one thing I know about people from deep personal experience: they’re happy to jump on the hate train if it makes them feel like fucking heroes.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you’ll see the worst side of people represented far too much.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“You don’t fight the sea. You leave until the flood’s over.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Conspiracy theories have been multiplying insanely for years now, ever more ridiculous and far-fetched. Chemicals in contrails. Anti-vaxxers. Climate-change deniers. And all those are almost precious compared to the toxic horror of the 9/11 and school-shooting truthers who reduce the worst nightmare of any parent’s life to fakery, and rip the survivors’ lives apart.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“I felt something for her once. Not tenderness. Not love. But a shared delusion that expresses itself in violence is almost more intimate than love.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Do not fall for things that feel right, and sound wrong. Understand?”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“People put together big movements on the internet. They help each other. Strangers help strangers. It isn't all bad.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Woman, I spend my days hammering nails and building strong walls. I'm plenty manly enough.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“Killing someone isn't like in the movies, something that you shrug off with a quip and a drink. It eats at you, even when the person you kill unquestionably has to die. And there's no way that her feelings about Melvin aren't, at the very deepest level, still complicated.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“I'm laughing at the thought that you only bring monsters into your bed. You deserve that.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“sympathetic”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River

“And I fall.”
― Rachel Caine, Wolfhunter River