Torak's Quotes

#1. What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

Mary Oliver

#2. There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.

Michelle Paver

#3. The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

Joseph J. Romm

#5. It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

Michelle Paver

#7. I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Michelle Paver

#8. Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

Michelle Paver

#9. Garion drew in a deep breath. "Or," he continued, "I can go off by myself and find Torak - wherever he is - and try to kill him."
Silk whistled, his eyes widening.
"He said that I didn't have to go alone," Garion added hopefully. "I asked him about that."
"Thanks," Belgarath said dryly.

David Eddings

#10. Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Dean Koontz

#11. Me and Curtis here just busted out of Arizona Max.

Robert Muchamore

#12. Torak's dead."
"Really?" Aunt Pol said. "Have you seen his grave? Have you opened the grave and seen his bones?

David Eddings

#13. To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

Sol Stern

#14. Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!"
"No, he won fairly enough!"

Michelle Paver

#15. Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

Michelle Paver

#16. I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

George Clooney

#17. The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.

Cara Delevingne

#18. By about chapter six of 'Wolf Brother,' I was having so much fun that I knew I wanted it to go on and I couldn't tell Torak's story in one book. So I sat down, and it took me about a week to plan in broad outline all six books.

Michelle Paver

#19. I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

Michelle Paver