company of wolves

• But those eyes are all you will be able to glimpse of the forest assassins as they cluster invisibly round your smell of meat as you go through the wood unwisely late - company of wolves
•  You are always in danger in the forest, where no people are 

  for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you - company of wolves
• But the wolves have ways of arriving at your own hearthside. We try and try but sometimes we cannot keep them out - company of wolves


  wolves could possibly be a representation of something else (masculinity/men/etc) and the idea is discussed that you can’t run from them/avoid/ignore them. They’re a part of society and in order to avoid them, they need to be killed off just as a wolf can be killed by a hunter.
• there was a woman once bitten in her own kitchen as she was straining the macaroni. - company of wolves
• worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems ... And then no wolf at all lay in front of the hunter but the bloody trunk of a man, headless, footless, dying, dead - company of wolves
• 'Here I am again, missus,’ he said. ‘Get me my bowl of cabbage and be quick about it.’ - company of wolves
• when the first one saw she’d slept with another man and, worse, clapped his red eyes on her little children - company of wolves
• he shouted: ‘I wish I were a wolf again, to teach this whore a lesson!’ So a wolf he instantly became - wolves
• she wept and her second husband beat her - company of wolves
• They say there’s an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on - company of wolves
• his torso is a man’s but his legs and genitals are a wolf’s. And he has a wolf’s heart - company of wolves
• if you burn his human clothing you condemn him to wolfishness for the rest of his life, so old wives hereabouts think it some protection to throw a hat or an apron at the werewolf, as if clothes made the man - company of wolves
• by the eyes, those phosphorescent eyes, you know him in all his shapes; the eyes alone unchanged by metamorphosis - company of wolves
• She is an unbroken egg; she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver - company of wolves
• She has her knife and she is afraid of nothing - company of wolves
• Her father might forbid her, if he were home, but he is away in the forest, gathering wood, and her mother cannot deny her - company of wolves
• The woods closed upon her like a pair of jaws - company of wolves
• When she heard the freezing howl of a distant wolf, her practised hand sprang to the handle of her knife - company of wolves
• When he offered to carry her basket, she gave it to him although her knife was in it because he told her his rifle would protect them - company of wolves
• You can tell them by their eyes, eyes of a beast of prey, nocturnal, devastating eyes as red as a wound - company of wolves
• now call on Christ and his mother and all the angels in heaven to protect you but it won’t do you any good - company of wolves
• night and the forest has come into the kitchen with darkness tangled in its hair - company of wolves
• She wanted her knife from her basket but she did not dare reach for it because his eyes were fixed upon her - company of wolves
• huge eyes that now seemed to shine with a unique, interior light, eyes the size of saucers, saucers full of Greek fire, diabolic phosphorescence - company of wolves
• She closed the window on the wolves’ threnody and took off her scarlet shawl, the colour of poppies, the colour of sacrifices, the colour of her menses, and, since her fear did her no good, she ceased to be afraid - company of wolves
• All the better to eat you with. The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat - company of wolves