Kat Kruger > Quotes

“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“I'm some sort of guinea pig in a home economics crash course for werewolves.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn’t on a checklist.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“If only I could handle my problems like a video-game style battle against a boss. But there are no power-ups in real life. No FTW moment when I can declare total pwnage. I don’t even know who the bad guys are.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“She inches closer so we’re practically sharing the same air. Maybe we are, because I’m light-headed.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“He doesn’t move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“On my first day of kindergarten, I bit a kid. Hard. In my defense, he deserved it.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“She goes very still and I can count on one hand all the times we’ve been here before, standing at the precipice of almost and staring down into the abyss of what-if.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“Think wolf; be wolf.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“He makes it sound so Zen. Or Jedi. Like some kind of Wolf Yoda. There is no try. And maybe that’s all there is to it. Don’t over-think the shift. Just embrace the form that I want to be in.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“The cold reality of what he is ― what I am ― sets in like cement and our former selves have been buried and smothered to death beneath the thick concrete of our separate fates.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“Stars are always aligned; it just depends on where you’re standing.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“The funniest thing about time is that you don’t ever really notice it until you’re waiting for something to happen.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“With great power comes great mistrust.”
“That’s not how that line goes.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Is Found

“No, life is what yo make it. Fate's just an excuse for not living.”
― Kat Kruger

“Forever isn’t supposed to have an expiration date.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“Everything on this green earth has a price. Some things, the ones that are important, you don’t often pay for, but when you do it could cost you damn near everything.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Is Found

“In retrospect, an all-you-can-eat buffet of raw fish is probably not the best idea, unless you’re a penguin. It was like playing “Find the Tainted Meat,” and after three plates, I won!”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“Sometimes there’s no shame in running away from our problems. Especially when your problems have sharp fangs and claws to match.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

“Sometimes wounds don’t heal. Sometimes they get infected.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Is Found

“Paranoia has become an unwanted side effect from being on so many most-wanted lists.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Is Found

“Youth is spent looking ahead,” he starts, “toward the future, toward the life you want to build for yourself and the ones you come to love. Everything is new and you rush through the years, the decades, as though the end will never come. But when you’ve lived long enough, you begin to look back at the things that you did … or didn’t do. Sometimes it fills you with a regret for never having stopped to appreciate everything you had during those halcyon days.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“So, yes, broken bones may heal but there are other injuries that can leave lasting scars. Ones that no one else sees but yourself.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws