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Quotes About Howl

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.
~ Darren Shan
When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.
~ Tim Cope
Once, each summer, I howl, and draw myself back, out of there
~ Sharon Olds
Now and then when some dog set up a howl in the back, one or the other of the cats would appear to smile faintly.
~ Sue Grafton
This isn't a strange place for the dance, I tell you. The mask will dance among columns of blood and numbers, among hurricanes of gold and groans of the unemployed, who will howl, in the dead of night, for your dark time.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
~ Francis Thompson
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain
~ Sylvia Plath
Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.
~ Franny Billingsley
It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance! - Tropic of Cancer
~ Henry Miller
Soon the room had that desolate look that comes from the chaos of packing up to go away and, worse, from removing the shade from the lamp. Never, never take the shade off a lamp. A lampshade is something sacred. Scuttle away like a rat from danger and into the unknown. Read or doze beside your lampshade; let the storm howl outside and wait until they come for you.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
He was nothing but a shadow on the horizon when that old basset hound of his escaped from the sheriff's office and went loping down the street. When she reached the edge of town, she sank down on her grizzled haunches, threw back her head, and let out a howl that broke nearly every heart that heard it. Later, there would be many who would swear he'd reined in his mare and stood silhouetted against the sunset for a timeless moment.
~ Teresa Medeiros
A woman needs fatalism more than a man. A woman's role in life is to listen, and when I listen I never hear anything but the howl of the wind. I prefer the sound of my own voice.
~ Brian W. Aldiss
I came to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat. "Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out." An enthusiastic howl broke the silence, and Grendel bounded through the doorway. He galloped through the steak house, skidded on the floor, smashed into my chair, and dropped a dead rat on my lap. Awesome.
~ Ilona Andrews
She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!
~ Carol Emshwiller
How strange that behind a smiling chattering mask one may rehearse in the utmost detail pictures and conversations which constitute torture, that behind that mask one may weep, one may howl.
~ Iris Murdoch
My favourite animal would probably be - probably be a dingo. Because I like how in the night you can - at the zoo, you can hear them howl and stuff like that. It's just amazing.
~ Bindi Irwin
Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Another howl broke from the tent downstream, this one sounding more like pieces of metal being violined against each other than an issue from any organic throat.
~ Tim Powers
I'm not an owl," said Arya. "I'm a wolf. I'll howl.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm not an owl. I'm a wolf. I'll howl. -Arya Stark
~ George R.R. Martin
Little cats who howl too loud get drowned in the canals," warned the fair-haired bravo. "Not if they have claws.
~ George R.R. Martin
But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.
~ Jack London
E quando, nelle silenziose notti gelate, puntava il muso a una stella e ululava a lungo come un lupo, erano i suoi antenati, ormai ridotti in polvere, a puntare il muso a una stella e ad ululare lungo i secoli attraverso di lui
~ Jack London
The surreal howl wove its way through the cacophony of human voices, a bright, bloody thread in a tapestry of fear.
~ Christie Golden