“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”
“Are we animals because we're caged, or caged because we're animals? I think it's both.”
“Morgan and Tilson looked at each other. Wit a shrug, Morgan put her shoulder against the cage and shoved. As the cage bounced down the steps, Morgan and Tilson ran after it.”
“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”
“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”
“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”