“Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.”

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

“That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.”

“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”

“They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.”

“No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.”

“Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.”