Ryan Graudin > Quotes

“These were the names she whispered in the dark.
These were the pieces she brought back into place.
These were the wolves she rode to war.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them--made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“The wolves of war are gathering. They sing a song of rotten bones.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“I'm tired of fixing things that always break.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Her self-reflection was no reflection at all. It was a shattered mirror. Something she had to piece together, over and over again. Memory by memory. Loss by loss. Wolf by wolf.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“So she traced and she named. She hurt and she raged. She remembered.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“The world was not just moving. It was alive.
And it was ready to fight.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“The world is wrong. I'm just doing my part to fix it.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“People were more than crooked type and swastika-stamped documents. No number of bullet points and biography facts could pin the soul behind the eyes.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Even at their most basic function, needles do two things: They give and they take away.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“There would be no dressing up as a maid. No cyanide slipped into his crystal glass of mineral water. The Fuhrer’s death was to be a loud, screaming thing. A broadcast of blood over the Reichssender.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Hope. A strange word. In her past, it had been a light, wispy thing. Crushed as easily as a finger under a guard's boot. But now...now hope weighed so much, as if the Colosseum itself had collapsed on top of her. Mortar and suffering. Brick and time.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Why, yes. I am a strange wonder. The most special of snowflakes! Born out of time, forever running to catch up to it!”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“The guard grabbed Yael's hand, snapped his pen across her skin in two quick strikes. X marks the survivor.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“She'd been trained to survive many things: starvation and bullet wounds. Winter nights and scouring sun. Double-tied knots and interrogations at knifepoint. But this? A boy's lips on hers. Moving and melding. Soft and strength, velvet and iron. Opposite elements that tugged and tor Yael from the inside. Feelings bloomed, hot and warm. Deep and dark.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Are you you without your memories? If not, who do you become?”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“If there was a fate worse than death, it was a life unremembered.”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Yael was a cobweb version, composed of gaps and strings and fragile nothings.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Her heart kept splitting inside her. Growing and breaking, rended and rendered, reminding her that she was so, so sick of death. All it carried. All it buried.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Monsters cut children open and call it progress. Monsters murder entire groups of people without blinking but get upset when they have to wash human ash from their garden strawberries. Monsters are the ones who watch other people do these things and do nothing to stop it.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“The braid is always stronger than the strand.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“This is my world. Wide and open and waiting.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“The moreness of him was beginning to show. The way ruins were excavated by an archaeologist. Brushstroke by brushstroke. Bit by bit.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“Fear is not an excuse,” Yael told him. “Fear is being human.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Healing hurt.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Yes, Luka Löwe was a National Socialist, but he was different on the inside.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“There was still beauty in this world. And it was worth fighting for.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf