“Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.”

“Don’t accuse others of eating when juice smears your face-fur.”

“I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.”

“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more.It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame alive”

“Shadows and light deceived us, but sounds we followed true.”

“Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.Love. Love was what drove him.”

“Quick as birds to catch the bugs.”