Wolves Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“The crumpled butcherpaper mountains lay in sharp shadowfold under the long blue dusk and in the middle distance the glazed bed of a dry…

— Cormac McCarthy

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I am told that in the heart of a vast, bowl-shaped valley deep inside the High Pamir where the sheep and the goats spend…

— Greg Mortenson

“The clouds to the south had cleared, and the sun appeared, gradually pushing shadow down the hills, spreading light like syrup over the brown…

— Lucy Beckett

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until…

— Anonymous

“A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars.”

— James Joyce

“A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as the first…

— Evan Grinde

“the forest glowered in the evening light, surrounding the town with its secrets and its plots, casting dark shadows on their lives. To her…

— Patricia Forde

“The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes. Pausing in my work to overlook…

— Sylvia Plath

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

“Often in the morning they rode out along the tracks on Easter and took their lunch and once rode as far as the little…

— Kent Haruf