Rosanne Parry > Quotes

“A person can live a little bit broken...Most of us do, I guess.”
― Rosanne Parry, Heart of a Shepherd

“All creatures eat and all are eaten in the end, but I am not ready to be eaten, not today.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“If we had known it would eventually involve the KGB, the French National Police, and the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, we would have left that body in the river and called the Polizei like any normal German citizen; but we were Americans and addicted to solving other people’s problems, so naturally, we got involved.”
― Rosanne Parry, Second Fiddle

“I could catch it, though. I could get it all by myself.” “Not. Even. A. Lick.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Sharp never drops his tail to me, no matter how hard I try. I wrestle him every day, but he slips out of my paws. I run farther than him. I howl longer. I gulp down more meat than anyone, but he is still taller and heavier, louder and stronger. I can run faster than him, but that is my only victory. Mother sees me try and gives me extra licks at sleep time.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Carry on.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“snowy meadow where elk are browsing unaware. The wind blows toward us hard and cold. The hunt is a fire inside me. I will be the wolf to feed my family. I crouch in the shadow of trees and wait for Father’s signal. In all the hunts I have watched, victory came when the pack burst on to the herd like one sweep of the wind.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Never give up, they say to me. You are the fastest of us all. I will follow you anywhere. Carry on. Carry on. Carry on.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Carry on. Carry on. Carry on.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“walk-trot-eat-rest,”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Wait until you have a fighting chance.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Men are the worst of all dangers. . . Men do things with no reason.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“not even met her, and already I want to take care of her. Hunt for her. Protect her.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“All is well, Mother would murmur to me. We are together.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“boundary he set for us.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Even a summer night is cold when you sleep alone.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“I'm going to imagine that converstion now. 'Hi, Mom, it's me. I ran away to Paris with a stranger I met under a bridge. He's really old, too, like twenty-five or something, and a soldier, so I helped him desert from his army, and, oh, did I mention he's a Communist'...”
― Rosanne Parry, Second Fiddle

“Home. Every step of our long journey was for this, beautiful this. I lift my head and sing our name to the wolf star who watches us all.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Fire

“If you eat everything, you make a wasteland of the sea.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Whale of the Wild

“A lead wolf feeds his pack,”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“I want the sound of her, the smell of her, the company of her on my travels.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“I will not let you sink, I silently promise. I will go as far as it takes and kill whatever I must to keep you alive.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Whale of the Wild

“We belong to the mountains,” Mother begins. “And the mountains belong to us,”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Never give up, they say to me. You are the fastest of us all. I will follow you anywhere. Carry on. Carry on. Carry”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Never give up”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“cheetah”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“grass”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Fire

“sold for slaughter, and some remain in corrals for the rest of their lives. A herd of galloping mustangs.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Horse Named Sky: A Young Mustang’s Gripping Adventure with the Pony Express—a Stand-Alone Companion to the New York Times Bestselling A Wolf Called Wander

“mournful”
― Rosanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander

“Young stallions spar for practice.”
― Rosanne Parry, A Horse Named Sky: A Young Mustang’s Gripping Adventure with the Pony Express—a Stand-Alone Companion to the New York Times Bestselling A Wolf Called Wander