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Top 25 Michelle Paver Quotes (2024 Update)

Michelle Paver Quote: “There’s always a choice,? said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”

1. “There’s always a choice,? said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That’s how it’s always been.”

2. “Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That’s how it’s always been.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Sometimes there’s no warning. Nothing at all.”

3. “Sometimes there’s no warning. Nothing at all.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.”

4. “How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Torak and Wolf looked at her in surprise, and she found herself facing two pairs of wolf eyes: one amber, one light-grey.”

5. “Torak and Wolf looked at her in surprise, and she found herself facing two pairs of wolf eyes: one amber, one light-grey.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “You can’t fool the Angry Ones, Telamon. You can’t fool your Ancestors, either. Your father knows what you did. – Hylas.”

6. “You can’t fool the Angry Ones, Telamon. You can’t fool your Ancestors, either. Your father knows what you did. – Hylas.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you’re afraid, you’re on your own.”

7. “Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you’re afraid, you’re on your own.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one’s eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.”

9. “Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one’s eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “I wondered what it must be like to be so handsome. Surely it would affect the behavior of everyone around you, always?”

10. “I wondered what it must be like to be so handsome. Surely it would affect the behavior of everyone around you, always?”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that’s chance?”

11. “A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that’s chance?”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It’s always there underneath. The oldest fear of all. What’s at the back of the cave? Eriksson was right. One mustn’t think too much. Keep busy, walk every day, that’s what he said. I’ve got to follow that to the letter. Especially the walks.”

12. “Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It’s always there underneath. The oldest fear of all. What’s at the back of the cave? Eriksson was right. One mustn’t think too much. Keep busy, walk every day, that’s what he said. I’ve got to follow that to the letter. Especially the walks.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It’s always there underneath. The oldest fear of all.”

13. “Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It’s always there underneath. The oldest fear of all.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. She was right, old Marie Curie.”

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

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Michelle Paver Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “To track prey, you must first know it as you would a brother.”

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

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Michelle Paver Quote: “And yet I think I now understand the impulse which drives men to shoot bears. It isn’t for the pelt or the meat or the sport – or not only those things. I think they need to do it. They need to kill that great Arctic totem to give them some sense of control over the wilderness – even if that is only an illusion.”

17. “And yet I think I now understand the impulse which drives men to shoot bears. It isn’t for the pelt or the meat or the sport – or not only those things. I think they need to do it. They need to kill that great Arctic totem to give them some sense of control over the wilderness – even if that is only an illusion.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “This was the wrong way because – because it wasn’t the right way.”

18. “This was the wrong way because – because it wasn’t the right way.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “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. A.”

19. “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. A.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I’m on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you’ve no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform – or this ice floe – but you’re aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.”

21. “Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I’m on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you’ve no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform – or this ice floe – but you’re aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “DEATH freezes everything. Whatever you did or didn’t do, whatever you said or left unsaid: none of that is ever going to change. You have no more chances to say sorry or make things right. No more chances for anything except regret.”

22. “DEATH freezes everything. Whatever you did or didn’t do, whatever you said or left unsaid: none of that is ever going to change. You have no more chances to say sorry or make things right. No more chances for anything except regret.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Men like that – when they know they won’t be found out – they will do anything.”

23. “Men like that – when they know they won’t be found out – they will do anything.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.”

24. “If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “The reeds stood tall and dead: I had the oddest feeling they wanted me gone. The light was failing. I caught a swampy smell of decay. Behind me something rustled and I saw the reeds part for some unseen creature. I thought: No wonder Maud’s mad. All her life in a place like this?”

25. “The reeds stood tall and dead: I had the oddest feeling they wanted me gone. The light was failing. I caught a swampy smell of decay. Behind me something rustled and I saw the reeds part for some unseen creature. I thought: No wonder Maud’s mad. All her life in a place like this?”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end. I.”

26. “But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end. I.”

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Michelle Paver Quote: “He said wolves are special, because they make strong music.”

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

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Michelle Paver Quote: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’ VOLTAIRE.”

28. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’ VOLTAIRE.”

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