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After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something

After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Beautiful, Beer, Snow
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Buckets, Way, Tiny
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Woods, Way, Remember
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Rain, Light, Cities
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Machines, Woods, Chance
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Class, People, Trying
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

Carol Rifka Brunt
Believe, One Thing, Hard
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.30, Dial Press

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

Carol Rifka Brunt
Forever, What If, Dying
Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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