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1 " She positions herself on a stool in front of a giant washing machine, watching her garments twirl in flashing patterns of red and white on a sea of black. It subdues her, that clothes can be washed in Boston or Rome and look the same for it, that she can step on an airplane and be anywhere else in the civilized world within a day and wear the same clothes and be the same person. That the small realities stay knitted together! "
― Eliot Schrefer , The New Kid
2 " …the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone’s benefitting. "
― Eliot Schrefer
3 " He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of surviving "
― Eliot Schrefer , Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
4 " Superstition, she said. Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong. "I hope the stupid polio", I said, and surprised myself by even sort of meaning it. I kissed the top of the bonobo's head. I imagined him in his crate, crying against the bars, someone lifting him out only to chop off a finger. Plunging him back into the crate, then pulling him out a few days later to take another.... "
5 " But it had always been my mom's philosophy that the way we treat animals goes hand in hand with the way we treat people, and so she would dedicate her life to stopping men like this one, bushmeat traders hoping for sale "
6 " A little self-hatred keeps a person interesting "
― Eliot Schrefer , The School for Dangerous Girls
7 " He’s a stranger, a lover, and my life partner. We have lived and died lifetimes together, and it makes me shiver every time that odd truth comes over me. "
― Eliot Schrefer , The Darkness Outside Us
8 " Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power. "
9 " This lifetime is yours to make what you will of it "
10 " Humans are animals, too, you know. "
― Eliot Schrefer , Threatened (Ape Quartet #2)
11 " I can offer you water or, um, water. Some of the pouches have a slightly different font, so you can choose serif hydration or sans serif hydration. "
12 " Emotions have their effects even after you try to bully them out of existence. "
13 " I am in a waiting room without end, without location, without time or place. If I go outside, I die before I get any answers. I exist only in a theoretical way, like a point on a coordinate plane. I am the simulation. "
14 " The stars! All those nuclear explosions sending out light waves, a very few of whose fate is to dissipate on my retinas. I look into the voids in between, a nothingness more absolute than any vacuum on Earth. In space, without any atmosphere to cloud my view, even that void resolves into more distant pricks of light.Nowhere is truly empty. The thought makes me feel lavishly alone. Somehow, space is so deeply melancholy that it's not at all sad, like a note so low it ceases to sound. Even my sorrow about my insignificance is insignificant. "
15 " ... we didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts. "
16 " Plenty of organisms live for a season, in order for those who come next to have a chance, Mayflies, daffodils, the octopus. We can accept that?''Well, we're hardwired not to accept our own demise. Daffodils are a lot more chill about it.''Okay, but we can be like daffodils together. "
17 " I will unravel here. "
18 " Luckily Rollan was more unflappable. He stepped forward, bravely brandishing his long dagger, however pathetic it looked compared to the teeth of Cabaro. "
― Eliot Schrefer , Rise and Fall (Spirit Animals, #6)
19 " You have to learn when to ignore suffering so that you're strong enough to fight it when the time is right. "
20 " ... a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing 98.7% of our DNA. "
