"Tell the Wolves I'm Home" Quotes
"Tell the Wolves I'm Home" is about a young girl grappling with the loss of her beloved uncle to AIDS and discovering secrets and connections that help her navigate grief and growing up.
fiction | 360 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.
Sometimes you can let the people you love go even if you don’t understand why.
If only you could invent a way to see people’s spirits the way you can see their bones on an X-ray.
There’s something so quiet and beautiful about a friend who stands just outside the fray.
I think I know why I love the wolves so much. I think it’s because they remind me of Finn.
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.
It’s strange how you can know something—know the pointy, sharp truth—but still want to bend and blunt the edges so it fits better in your mind.
It was like he gave me an invisible piece of himself that I carried around in my pocket.
The world is full of holes and dark places. But you have to try to fill them in.
I think the best thing about being a human is that you can change what you know and what you think.
