25 Quotes by William Giraldi

A wolf expelled from its pack will travel hard distances to find another – to be accepted, to have kin. It wants to stanch hunger, sleep off fatigue, make itself anew.

Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you.

The annals of human wisdom fall silent when faced with the feral in us.

You can always blame a person. The world ain’t nothing but persons, every goddamn one of them starved for something.

Because he was beginning to fear that man belongs neither in civilization nor nature – because we are aberrations between two states of being.

Haunted and bereft, he learned then, were an unforgiving pair.

What does it mean when what you have becomes equal to what you do, when what you own is essential to who you are? In our everyday grasp of owning things, we tag it materialism, consumerism, consumption. But I trust you’ll agree that the possession of books is not identical to the possession of shoes. Someone with thousands of books is someone you want to talk to; someone with thousands of shoes is someone you suspect of soul-death.