For the Wolf Quotes

“Sometimes you don't mourn people so much as you mourn who they could've been.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“People with power resent losing it, and too much power for too long a time can make a villain of anyone.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“A forest in your bones, a graveyard beneath your feet. There are no heroes here.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“The warm familiarity of the bookshelves kept her together, knit her back into herself as she wandered between them.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“I want the roots…I understand what it means, and I want them anyway, because I am for the Wolf, and the Wolves are for the Wilderwood.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Grief was like gravel in her slipper, and she felt it more when she was standing still.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“People created stories to fill the gaps they didn’t understand, and religion grew up around it like rot on a fallen tree.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Red spent the time mostly in her room, surrounded by her books, letting the familiar passages be an escape. She was good at escaping.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“She went to grab her scarlet cloak before remembering it was still in Valleyda. One shaky sigh, that she’d left it there, but a marriage was more than a cloak. As for the other reasons she’d kept it—the claiming of who she was, what she was—she didn’t need a cloak for that anymore, either. She knew it in her bones, she wore it in her eyes instead of on her shoulders.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Red, I’d let the world burn before I hurt you.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Again, that sense of untetheredness, of unreality, of not being sure what to do or how to move. Books. The thought was a beacon, something to cling to. I brought books.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Because monsters are real," she said. "And even the Wolf needs help sometimes.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“I mourn the idea of her, maybe. The gap between what a mother is supposed to be and what she was.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“I don’t think we’re ever ready to take on what our parents leave us.” Eammon studied his knotted hands. “The places left rarely fit.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Neve's emotions were an ocean of history and feeling, and sadness was just the foam.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“I’ll thank you to keep your hands off my wife.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“He may let the world burn, but he’d let himself burn with it.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Red never quite managed to wring emotion from her mother. She’d tried, when she was younger— giving gifts, picking flowers. As she got older, she’d pulled down curtains and wrecked dinners with drunkenness, trying for anger if she couldn’t have something warmer. Even that earned her nothing more than a sigh or an eye roll.

You had to be a whole person to be worth mourning. She’d never been that to her mother. Never been anything more than a relic.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“She was going into the Wilderwood to save everyone she loved from herself.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“If her destruction was imminent, she'd rather be the architect than a bystander.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Support from the bottom up would be more useful than from the top down.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“But hope, you know? It’s like a boot that won’t break in. Hurts to walk in it, hurts worse to go barefoot.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“This ends in roots and bones. For all of you. It always ends in roots and bones.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“She could count the number of people who loved her on one hand, and they all kept begging for the only thing she couldn’t give them.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark, I am forest. —Rainer Maria Rilke”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“[...] she's the most important person in my life and has been for centuries. That's enough.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Her life had been a house of cards, pieces stacked delicately on top of one another more by ease of construct than by a choice truly made, because weren’t things hard enough without her making them any harder?”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“To those who hold anger too deep to extricate, to those who feel too knife-edged to hold something soft, to those who are tired of holding up worlds.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“These scarred hands, this overlong hair, this face too hard-edged to be handsome—she’d thought she was prepared for anything, but she wasn’t prepared for this. The Wolf was a man before he was a monster, and the figure before her didn’t fit neatly into either category.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“The figure at the table didn’t seem to notice. His head bent over an open book, hand moving as a pen scratched over paper. The lines of his shoulders spoke of strength, but that of only a man rather than a monster; the fingers holding the pen were long and elegant, not clawed. Still, there was something otherworldly in the shape of him, something that hinted at humanity but didn’t quite arrive there.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf