Erica Berry > Quotes

“When I think of a ravenous wolf now, I do not see a spectre of horror. I see a body wired with instinct, a body on the brink of joy.”
― Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

“Women, like wolves, have long been faulted, not only for crossing the boundaries made by others, but for lacking boundaries themselves. For being too loud, too big, too scattered, a problem to solve.”
― Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

“With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for interviews and research. Were you afraid? I wanted to ask the wolf. And if you were, how did you bear it?”
― Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

“I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of their murkiness.”
― Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

“To grow up was to learn to keep walking, not away from the shadows, but between and beside them. Into the woods to Grandmother's house we must go and go and go.”
― Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear