“Storm is hounding me like a hyena around a carcass.”
“He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”
“In hyenas, the clitoris carries urine, enables copulation, and serves as a birth canal. Yet it looks precisely like a male penis. Perhaps this is what hyenas are laughing about.”
“I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...”
“Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?”
“Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.”