All Things Left Wild Quotes

“Revenge isn’t real. You can’t buy coffee with it. It won’t warm your bed at night. And killing only leads to more killing.”
― James Wade, All Things Left Wild

“The gun was heavy in Randall’s hand, as it should be in any hand, and heavy with the weight of decision and consequence and the destruction to come. It was, he thought, a machine constructed to kill and spill the blood of nations and become a commodity for the powerful, and another tool with which to control the weak and later the same tool that would make the weak believe they have power when in truth they have none. Only a gun, heavy in their hand.”
― James Wade, All Things Left Wild

“Lightning fractured the sky and kissed the horizon and the world from one end to the other was covered in dark and whatever dominion the sun once held had been ceded and this was the storm I had seen coming for what seemed like my entire life.”
― James Wade, All Things Left Wild: A Novel

“There is a world removed from the one that birthed me. It is a world unlike the one in which I grew and was molded. It is the real world," he told the dog, who twitched its ears. "And it is full only of ignorance and evil.”
― James Wade, All Things Left Wild

“The building and rebuilding of the world hinges on our ability to correct our mistakes rather than continue them, passing them down as heirlooms or birthrights so that each generation may be as tainted and broken as the last.”
― James Wade, All Things Left Wild