The Wolf Den Quotes

“Either we choose to stay alive, or we give up. And if it's living we choose, then we do whatever it takes.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Tomorrow I’ll start living”, you say, Postumus: always tomorrow. Tell me, that “tomorrow”, Postumus, when’s it coming? How far off is that “tomorrow”?”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Amara looks at Dido, at the joy on her face, and realises there is nobody she loves more. Warmth spreads through her. She has never had a friend like Dido. She is the light in the darkness of her life.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“May I know love's power, if never its sweetness.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Her anger is rising like the sea, drowning her.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“She runs through the repertoire, the line between fear and anger stretched taut across her heart.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“For a moment, she thinks of Felix. Imagines what it must be like to have the power to act on your anger rather than bury it.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Suns when they sink can rise again,”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“And it's not brave. It's stupid. Have you seen the bruises on her? Who fights a battle they're never going to win?"

"That's what courage means.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“May men fall to me as this offering falls to you, Greatest Aphrodite. May I know love’s power, if never its sweetness.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“But she is always aware of the imbalance in power, and fear is her affections shadow.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Stories have power whether we believe them or not.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Amara thinks the stones look like all the kindnesses Cressa heaped up in her life, insignificant, yet touching the people closest to her.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Fit to fuck an emperor,” the hairdresser says when she’s finished. “If you’ll pardon the expression.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“May men fall to me as this offering falls to you, Greatest Aphrodite. May I know love's power, if never its sweetness.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“I loved him. And I despised him. What else is possible towards the man who gives everything and takes everything?”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Amara thinks of her time as a slave in Chremes' household. It does not cheer her up to see parallels between her past and that of the destitute old woman beside her. "You didn't start life as a slave, did you?" Fabia asks, perhaps sensing her discomfort. "I can always tell."
"How can you tell?"
"You still act like you matter.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“She is the light in the darkness of her life.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“It’s a gift, to sleep well,”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“It’s for Gallus! I don’t want him getting in trouble for not paying.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“A woman’s honor is the most precious gift she has.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“So she sold me.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“The sounds of Victoria entertaining the toothless man—and his appreciation—are loud in the street.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Amara thinks of her father, of the way he would smile when she asked him if he believed in the gods. Stories have power whether we believe them or not.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Now, my little love, entrust your happiness to the wind. Trust me, the nature of men is fickle.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den

“Though it's a loveliness shot through with fragility, like the exquisite glass statue of the godess Athena she remembers from her childhood.”
― Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den