Quotes from Eliot Schrefer

My feet hurt, I was light-headed with stress and bad meals, and the idea of perhaps eating real food and sitting in a chair-- or even sleeping in a bed!-- sounded like bliss.

He murped, then went to the edge of the overgrowth and stood there agitatedly, waiting for me to follow, glaring at me like I was an idiot who didn't know how to take a hint.

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

On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Five point four million. And it wasn't nearly over yet.

Saving myself would mean destroying him.

Because Tarik was dead.

Tarik was dead. Lumeo was dead. An

Even if Tellun himself bounded in here with party hats, I'm not sure there would be any reason to celebrate.

Between those times we'll fight to live.

If she dares attack, I will pounce behind her triangular head like a mongoose, and shake until she can move no more. That will be my reply to her." Conor

I like my hand, my blipping brain decides. It's a beautiful hand.

could pick up what he said.

stupid laws, that's why.

The cattle industry, the most red-blooded of american livelihoods, land of the cowboys and marlboro man, has been relying on same-sex attraction for years and years.

Sorry. I seem to have caused a mess our last time around.

Kovo looked at the boy for a long moment, misery etched in his face. Then, with a shimmering flash and a popping sound, the ape vanished.

Terror is your enemy.

I just think of him as my elk. And I'm his boy.

We'll live," Kodiak says as he pulls himself out of the water, lying on his side and wiping water from his thick hair. "We'll get cancer in our twenties, but we'll survive at least until then." "Was that a joke?" I ask, arranging myself next to him and wringing out the hem of my shirt. "Yes. It was a joke, and also it was true. It is a Dimokratia kind of joke.

he tried to get to his feet and failed. "It's okay," Conor whispered, stroking Briggan's paw. "You're going to be okay.

Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.

You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.

You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.