The Wolf in the Whale Quotes

“I am no longer scared of being a woman — it doesn’t make me any less a man. I am both. I am neither. I am only myself.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Life attracts life.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that runs into the ocean and becomes a whale. It is said that the two animals share a spirit.
I'd been sent a vision, though I didn't know by whom. Sila, perhaps. Or Singarti. Maybe even Ataata. I couldn't speak to them, couldn't summon them- but I could watch. I could listen. And I thought I understood their message.
The wolf is not bound to its shape. I can change form at will, transforming to a whale when it must swim in the sea.
Seeing the whale, no one would ever suspect it had once been a wolf.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Every passage is one of blood, little girl. Birth and death, you are torn apart and re-created.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Blue is the color of the summer sky. Of autumn berries. Of winter ice. But not of men.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Within us both, cowardice, despair, and violence warred with bravery, faith, and love. All we could do was keep fighting.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Following the flame-haired giant with his gentle touch and wicked blade.
The wolf in the whale had gone south. and so did I.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“There are few sounds at night on the frozen sea besides the roar of the wind. No plants to rustle, no waves to crash upon the shore, no birds to caw. The white owl flies on hushed wings. The white fox walks with silent tread. Even Inuit move as softly as spirits, the snow too hard to yield and crunch beneath our boots. We hear little, but what we do hear is vital: the exploding breath of a surfacing seal, the shift and crack of drifting ice. But in the forest there is always sound. The trees, even in their shrouds of snow, are alive, and their voices--groans, creaks, screams--never cease.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Until then, the Christ will grow more powerful and Odin more frail. And Loki… Loki will merely smile. And laugh. And wait.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“My head whirled. How many types of humans were there in the world?”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“The earth swallowed me. Then the screaming began.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“His solemn gaze matched my own. “I told you once I didn’t want to settle down with a wife. Now I know I never wanted only a wife. I wanted a wife and a partner and a friend. Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell. Isn’t that what you told me once?”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“our spirits play among the stars, and then they’re reborn into someone else.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“For anyone interested in seeing what Omat’s world might have looked like, watch Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, and Paul Apak Angilirq’s cinematic masterpiece, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Its punching-game scene inspired Omat and Issuk’s confrontation in The Wolf in the Whale. Shot entirely in Nunavut, this impeccably researched film affords an invaluable window into Inuit life centuries ago.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“The farther south we went, the weaker the Moon Man became.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale