“How strange to have a sister, Valarie thought. Someone you might have been.”

“His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.”

“He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss was the last swing, the final impact, and he gave in finally, felled.”

“The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.”

“Though Valerie and Peter were dancing differently, their bodies moving in different ways, they were both doing the same dance. It was a jealousy dance, old as the human race”

“If you're the wolf, though, I'll chop off your head and piss down the hole”

“She didn't want to be considered a woman yet, wasn't ready to be the recipient of jewelry from men.”