They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

Don’t worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.

Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.

Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. “Maybe later” meant no.

Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.

A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or what to do. So, I didn’t say anything.

The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

If you were mine, I would never let you go.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it