No One Crosses the Wolf Quotes

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. —Louise Glück, “Nostos”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“He could also take whatever you felt best about and sculpt it into a flaw with a handful of words.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“Healing was a simple concept: easy to say, so hard to come by.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“I was the kind of kid who swallowed her language.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“At least I had him, and he loved me so much it sometimes seemed to cause him pain.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“There’s danger in believing you have one central problem—an obstacle that, if removed, will allow happiness to bloom. People think, I’ll be happy when I’m thinner, when I’m richer, when I have a better job or partner, but they don’t realize it’s so much more complex”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“Despite my mother being the best possible sport when his family visited, he picked a fight with her over something trivial because he couldn’t acknowledge his truth: when he wasn’t at the center of things, he felt small. A venom he didn’t understand filled his throat. To avoid choking, he spat it at whomever was closest, swelling with self-loathing disguised as self-importance.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“The universe, it knows everything about you, and nothing is left to chance. It is all planned to make you bigger, stronger.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“What a thing a mirror is: impossible to gaze into when it holds the answer we don’t want to see.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“How do you not think about the bad shit all the time?” I’d ask. “I don’t know. But we don’t have the same memories.” He’d be right.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“were real memories, not moments that have been eclipsed by the shadow of trauma.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“kind and generous and he, like his sister, laughed with his entire body. I thought of the New Year’s Eves of my childhood, when he dealt blackjack into the morning, throwing hands with a wink so Mike and I could hoard our bounty. But other times he was, indeed, a monster. That complication is impossibly difficult to reconcile—to hold those two opposing truths in my cupped hands.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“We who’ve been chronically abused can take a lot. So much. So much more than a person with a normative brain and a normative nervous system could or would.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“He could also take whatever you felt best about and sculpt it into a flaw with a handful of words. A terrible gift if ever there was one. Slaps wear off; bruises fade. But withheld love leaves a trench of invisible scars.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“He could also take whatever you felt best about and sculpt it into a flaw with a handful of words. A terrible gift if ever there was one. Slaps wear off; bruises fade.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir