--- title: "2 Dan Vyleta Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "writer... | Dan Vyleta is a German–Canadian writer, whose novel The Crooked Maid was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His first novel P..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-dan-vyleta-96673.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Dan Vyleta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-dan-vyleta-96673.jpg) # Dan Vyleta (1974) Historian **2** quotes in **4** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Dan Vyleta is a historian. ## Quick Facts About Dan Vyleta Born July 15, 1974 Profession Historian ## About Dan Vyleta writer... \| Dan Vyleta is a German–Canadian writer, whose novel The Crooked Maid was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His first novel Pavel & I was published in 2008 and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Czech. His second novel, The Quiet Twin, was ## Quotes by Dan Vyleta > [“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-vyleta/it-s-a-choreography-of-sorts-some-birds-her-mother-once-told-her/) [Dan Vyleta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-vyleta/) [Choreography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choreography/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/dan-vyleta-96673_choreography_it-s-a-choreography-of-sorts-some-birds_51281.jpg) > [“It takes me a while to drag him out, he's got himself stuck to the axle, and by the time I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-vyleta/it-takes-me-a-while-to-drag-him-out-he-s-got-himself-stuck-to-the/) [Dan Vyleta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-vyleta/) [Cats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/dan-vyleta-96673_cats_it-takes-me-a-while-to-drag-him-out-he-s_2951950.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-vyleta/#itemlist", "name": "Dan Vyleta Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Vyleta" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-vyleta/it-s-a-choreography-of-sorts-some-birds-her-mother-once-told-her/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/dan-vyleta-96673_choreography_it-s-a-choreography-of-sorts-some-birds_51281.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/dan-vyleta-96673_choreography_it-s-a-choreography-of-sorts-some-birds_51281.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/dan-vyleta-96673_choreography_it-s-a-choreography-of-sorts-some-birds_51281.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.” — Dan Vyleta", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It takes me a while to drag him out, he's got himself stuck to the axle, and by the time I am done and stand over the body something strange has started to happen. The alley's filled with a half-dozen cats, runty little things with their ribs showing and their tails worn high like they're pointing to the moon. I stand there, breathing froth into the snowflakes and watch them gather round me, soft kitty paws, and now and then a patrol car rolls past in the distance. The cats are circling us, tails cocked at the moon, their muzzles bloodied by the tail lights' glow. They are vicious bastards, let me tell you: frost on their whiskers, eyes like cut glass, a half-dozen pairs, on me and the dead man. And then they start licking. Licking at the snow I mean, the blood in the snow, they lap it up like mother's milk. And all the while from their throats, from their whole bodies, there issues this sound, you hear it with your skin, it's like an engine running under your palm. 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