Michelle Paver > Quotes

“Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.”
― Michelle Paver

“Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.”
― Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker

“There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”
― Michelle Paver

“Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all. ”
― Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker

“Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.”
― Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker

“ "So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight."
Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try." ”
― Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

“Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I'm on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you've no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform - or this ice floe - but you're aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?"
It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.”
― Michelle Paver, Soul Eater

“You cannot go and warn him," Saeunn said sternly. "It is too late. You would never find him."
"I know," said Renn without turning her head.
To herself she added, But I've still got to try.”
― Michelle Paver, Spirit Walker

“Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.”
― Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

“DEATH freezes everything. Whatever you did or didn’t do, whatever you said or left unsaid: none of that is ever going to change. You have no more chances to say sorry or make things right. No more chances for anything except regret.”
― Michelle Paver, Wakenhyrst

“This was the wrong way because - because it wasn't the right way.”
― Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

“If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.”
― Michelle Paver

“A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?”
― Michelle Paver, Gods and Warriors

“Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one's eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.”
― Michelle Paver, Wakenhyrst

“Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It’s always there underneath. The oldest fear of all.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...”
― Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

“I wondered what it must be like to be so handsome. Surely it would affect the behavior of everyone around you, always?”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“The reeds stood tall and dead: I had the oddest feeling they wanted me gone. The light was failing. I caught a swampy smell of decay. Behind me something rustled and I saw the reeds part for some unseen creature. I thought: No wonder Maud’s mad. All her life in a place like this?”
― Michelle Paver, Wakenhyrst

“Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!"
"No, he won fairly enough!" ”
― Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

“And yet I think I now understand the impulse which drives men to shoot bears. It isn't for the pelt or the meat or the sport - or not only those things. I think they need to do it. They need to kill that great Arctic totem to give them some sense of control over the wilderness - even if that is only an illusion.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’ VOLTAIRE”
― Michelle Paver, Wakenhyrst

“Most of the time he was simply Wolf: clever, inquisitive, and fiercely loyal. Sometimes he was the guide, with mysterious certainty in his amber eyes. Always he was a pack-brother.”
― Michelle Paver, Soul Eater

“This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told - and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasant. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.”
― Michelle Paver, Wakenhyrst

“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end.
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“Until that moment, I’ve never felt like prey. Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“Wolf hated the female tailless. He'd hated her from the first moment he'd smelt her, as she pointed the long claw that flies at his pack brother. What a thing to do! As if Tall Tail-less was some kind of prey!...Didn't she know that he was the lead wolf? She was so sharp and disrespectful when she yipped at him in tail-less talk. Why didn't Tall Tail-less just snarl and chase her away?”
― Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother