Coyote Songs Quotes

“God works in mysterious ways, thought the coyote for a second, but he gets really fucking weird when it comes to poor people and dangerous places.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“The wind carried the echoes of old tears spilled for those who had passed on. It carried the sound of drums made to sing for gods that predated everything humanity thinks it knows. It carried the debris of shattered souls, lost prayers, childhood dreams abandoned under the weight of reality.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“Facts are harder to swallow than rocks, but just as solid.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“She was angry and frustrated, and something was telling her that making assholes bleed was the only way to improve her mood.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“Fishing is lying, and lying to a smart fish is almost impossible.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“Go forth, my soldier, and make right all that which has been made wrong by the hands of evil men”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“Fishing… is like life: mostly about deception, waiting, luck, and going home empty-handed.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“However, the man was wrong. It wasn’t a hundred coyotes with bullhorns howling at once and it wasn’t the Devil himself. The things that had screamed that night was the soul of a shattered, hurt mother facing the loss of everything she loved, and that is something even the Devil should fear.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

“No beginning is ever assured. No end is predictable. Only the terrified cloak their fragile minds and spirits in a comfortable layer of certainty. Convictions waver. Absolutes dissolve into vagueness as fury subsides, as passion drowns in repetition, as knowledge is gained, as bigger things begin to dwarf what we once thought of as monolithic beliefs.”
― Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs