The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing Quotes

“...I knew that forgiveness, too, was a fire, and you carried it in the small tinder of your own two hands, and if you did not fail it, you could illuminate the world.”
― Joseph Fasano, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing

“When a man has fury in his bones he can do wild things, some of them fiercer than what he is, and sometimes afterward he wakes to what he has done, and if the waking is graceful he can make it right with his atonement. But when a man has crossed past fury, silently and without his knowing, so that somewhere in the night he crosses over into the cold and shimmering country of indifference, the barren country where he looks up into the stars and knows only the cold fire of continuance, the pith of wintering in things, then he has come to a place where he himself is the wild thing that will undo him, and he is no more himself than the snow that will cover him in oblivion, and he blows through the land and his own bones like the snow itself, and wherever he drifts he is banished, and wherever he arrives he will never return, and wherever he travels, he is never there.”
― Joseph Fasano, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing

“The ruins of the dance are the dance.”
― Joseph Fasano, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing

“When you love the dead in someone, you're merciless.”
― Joseph Fasano, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing

“We are cast off so we can be astonished. We are abandoned so we can be found.”
― Joseph Fasano, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing