“I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.”

“Sometimes I know things before they happen. Sometimes I can see a scene in my head. Like watching a movie, and then it will happen. I think, did I make it happen? Or did I just see it somehow?”

“A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.”

“I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.”

“My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange?”

“Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.”

“Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens”