"'Dont you even breathe the steam and you aint said grace,' his mother said." Chapter I, Page 14

"She would not return to a kill. She would not cross a road or a rail line in daylight. She would not cross under a wire fence twice in the same place. These were the new protocols. Strictures that had not existed before. Now they did." Chapter I, Page 25

"Echols one time told me that tryin to get the best of a wolf is like tryin to get the best of a kid. It aint that they're smarter. It's just that they aint got all that much else to think about." Chapter I, Page 27

"'Let's be careful about openin this door,' the man said. 'If that thing has come out of that muzzletie you'll wish you was in a bathtub with a alligator.'" Chapter I, Page 69

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