There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.