The Butcher and the Wren Quotes

“Sound can manipulate emotions better than almost anything else.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“WRENS ARE TRULY MAGNIFICENT LITTLE creatures. They signify rebirth and protection, immortality, and strength. Because of the wren’s small stature, most larger birds and predators underestimate its incredible ingenuity and intelligence. But while technically fragile, the wren outwits its underprepared predator to come out on top when threatened.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“Nothing is worse than being forgotten.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“Everything in his view is cast in a sickly green hue, but to Tara it’s as dark as the inside of an executioner’s hood.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“he almost pulls a muscle trying to stop his eyes from rolling.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“People are just too dumb to understand that their own predilections are suggestive of a gene pool that is rooted in brutality.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“Besides, it is hard to feel anything but disgust for a man sitting in his own piss and still using words like pussy.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“It’s like the universe was asking him to take out its trash. Of course, he obliged.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“these calling cards indicate insecurity more than confidence, like someone who tells a joke but then spends a half hour explaining the punch line.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“Life in a cubicle is truly barbaric.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“Nature always makes the best soundtrack.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“The room seems to agree that overreacting is highly preferable to possibly risking more lives.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“You owe me,” she says with a wink. “I don’t owe you shit,” he responds to her coldly”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and The Wren

“Her wails had been his lullaby for a deep, if brief, sleep.”
― Alaina Urquhart, The Butcher and the Wren