Quotes from Michelle Paver

Une ombre attaquera la forêt, et nul ne pourra s'y opposer. Alors viendra Celui-qui-Ecoute. Son arme, c'est l'air ; et son langage le silence.

This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told - and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasant. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. She was right, old Marie Curie.

Most of the time he was simply Wolf: clever, inquisitive, and fiercely loyal. Sometimes he was the guide, with mysterious certainty in his amber eyes. Always he was a pack-brother.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' VOLTAIRE

But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn't have cared about bringing it to an end. ? Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

You can't fool the Angry Ones, Telamon. You can't fool your Ancestors, either. Your father knows what you did. - Hylas

Yesterday, I was in Hatchards, and I saw a photograph of it, the usual view from Darjeeling. Everything flooded back. The cold. The silence. The dread. It was so overwhelming that I staggered outside and vomited in the gutter. People thought I was drunk.

It stood. It faced me. Dark, dark against the sea. I saw its arms hanging at its sides. I saw that one shoulder was higher than the other. I saw its wet round head.

Renn dacht aan Torak, die door het Woud was gestrompeld om de resten van haar boog te halen. Misschien laat zielzwerven inderdaad zijn sporen na, dacht ze, maar dit is gewoon Torak. 'Dank je wel,' zei ze. 'Kleine moeite.' 'Niet alleen bedankt voor de boog, maar voor veel meer. Ook voor dat je je eed hebt gebroken.' Toen legde ze haar hand op zijn schouder, zoende hem op zijn wang en hobbelde snel weg.

It melted into the shadows. It had left no tracks; only a branch,

Until that moment, I've never felt like prey. Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back.

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

He said wolves are special, because they make strong music.

To track prey, you must first know it as you would a brother.

She was glad to see that he was finally growing some hairs on his chin: soon he would have a proper mane that went all the way round his face. The she-lion decided that from now on, she must give him plenty of licking and muzzle-rubs, to help it grow

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

In the early 1900s an American named Fanny Bullock Workman unfurled a 'Votes For Women' banner high in the Karakorams, and left her visiting card in a glass jar on one of the peaks.

Zwart ijs... Witte beren, rood bloed. Ze zoeken het oog van de adder... In het oog gaan is in het donker gaan. Misschien kun je de weg naar buiten vinden, Wolfjongen. Maar wanneer je eenmaal binnen bent, zul je nooit meer heel zijn. Een deel van je blijft daar beneden. In het donker. - De Loper

Voor jou is het anders... Nee, dat is het niet, wilde ze wel uitschreeuwen. Snap je dan niet dat jij en Wolf de eerste vrienden zijn die ik ooit heb gehad? - Renn

How do you know all these things?' He shrugged. 'It's boring being a goatherd. Nothing to do except watch goats. If I hadn't watched other creatures, I'd have gone mad.

Je hebt al zoveel gedaan. - Torak, tegen Renn

She and I stay together. We will not be separated again. - Hylas, about him and Pirra