Quotes from A.L. Davroe, Nexis

What you humans need to do is find beauty in the fact that something is naturally the way it is. Perhaps then you wouldn't be so destructive." [Meems says to Ellani]

From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is more wonderful.

I want him to be with me because he likes being with me, not because he's forced to be with me or because he wants something from me. That's not how friendship should be." [Ellani]