Tara K. Harper > Quotes

“Only someone you know is going to assume you know them by saying 'it's me.' It's strangers who use names, since they know you don't know who they are."

I'm terrified to think that that almost made sense.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolf in Night

“You're competent enough on the trail."

Don't slay me with admiration.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolf in Night

“Hells, Nori-girl, if the Ell called me on it in council, I'd have to swear by the second moon that you couldn't tell a man from a mudsucker.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolf in Night

“The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolfwalker

“Badgers swarm out of the sand;
Talk and walk, don't run or stand.
Pritaries bite and bite again;
Kick and shout and run like wind."

Payne checked the small clock again. "Aye," he cut in. "Black Wolf never did get that last verse right. What she should have said was, 'Pritaries like to bite your ass; best to run away real fast.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolf in Night

“I apologize for my sister, Hafell," he said quickly. "She is overwrought from events of the past few days." Nori kicked his foot, but he didn't turn a hair as he finished smoothly, "I believe she meant to say that she was a stubborn, shortsighted, small-minded, Randonnen mountain rat.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolf in Night

“Wildcat fights for den or prey;
Watch for tracks and stay away.
Bollusk trample, charge, and kick;
Climb a sturdy tree or cliff."

She broke off as Payne leaned over and said in a stage whisper to one of the girls, "I don't think she's remembering it right. The real verse is, 'Bollusk charge and like to trample; climb, or be a flat soil sample.”
― Tara K. Harper, Wolf in Night

“Down crumbling desert slopes
and wind-wrought shapes of dusty stone;
Where the sandy fur of the meer cat scrapes lightly through the sod-cut tunnels;
Into heights of wispy thoughts and layered twilights,
Where red-eyed hawks lie flat on soft winds;
Dreams, born and living,
Have but one soul:
Yours.”
― Tara K. Harper