“If the innocent are unjust, I'd rather be counted among the guilty."-Valerie”

“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”

“Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this division of the sexes. Her fingers itched to hold a weapon, too, to do something, to kill something with her anger.”

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

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

“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.”