Darcie Little Badger > Quotes

“Maybe, sometimes, wants felt like needs. Because the alternative hurt too bad.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Ellie scrutinized her memories of Trevor. There were no clues, no warnings, that hinted at his violent death. If lives were books, his final chapter came too soon and belonged to a different genre.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“People don't give animals enough credit sometimes. Or maybe they give humans too much credit.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“...You can bring a guest to the wedding, but nobody too weird. I get that you're asexual, so, like, it can be a friend or zucchini or...' She trailed off, sounding a bit uncertain. "Yeah. Just. Nobody my parents would hate. They already don't like the groom.'
'Cool. Does my dog count as too weird?”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“I wondered how anyone found each other in a place where it was so easy to become lost.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“Judging by the gossip Ellie had overheard in the mall earlier that week, evil scarecrows were becoming a pest. Probably spreading with fields of monoculture corn and soy crops. The formerly diverse scare stories of the prairie were being replaced by repetitive encounters with straw-filled bodies and dead, button eyes.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Dead or alive, dogs could skip from deep-nap-unconscious to awake-and-ready-for-anything almost instantaneously. She envied their skill.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“tradition accommodated the adaptable nature of humankind.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“It doesn’t make any difference if you crush just one insect. The swarm will devour your home.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“To dwell on death, especially a premature and violent end, burdens the soul.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“They didn’t hunt the bison for food. The colonizers desired to annihilate another group of humans. Indigenous peoples. They knew that the Indigenous ones relied on bison. So the bison had to go.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“Why are you shouting?” I asked the forest. “It’s okay. You’re home.” “Then why are you here?” the trees asked. “If this is our home, who are you?”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“Even if most of the urban legends were fictitious, Ellie had a ghost dog companion. When it came to strange stuff, she could not be too open-minded.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“People cope with tragedy in different ways. That's important, Ellie. There's no one right method of grieving. He... how do I explain the way loss changed him? Besides the way his grades dropped. Besides the fair-weather friends he lost. I noticed a change in his eyes. Like he now viewed the world as the place that stole his father.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“They were slaughtered,” she said. “A human breed known as colonizer killed millions.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“People hurt things that frighten them.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Then, Momma explained that she once met an elm person who was a thousand years old, with bark tougher than the plates on an armadillo’s back. Everyone called her the screaming elm, because she wailed “Where am I?” all day long.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“Hey Daysona!”
The possum stood and regarded us with splendidly large brown eyes. Her thin lips were flecked with blue-black bean try juice.
“I thought the berries were supposed to go in your basket, not your mouth!”
“I’m multitasking.” Dave shona shouted back, holding up a nearly full woven blueberry basket.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“It was a world-shaper, an act that momentarily tweaked the natural laws through willpower alone.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“Car accidents killed or injured more teens than any other cause, including curses and slippery bathroom floors.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Wait!” Ellie grabbed her father’s hand. “Be sneaky.” “Of course. Give me some credit. I’ve read hundreds of spy novels. Hundreds.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Dungeon B,” he said. “It’s infested by meddling kids and their ghost. We need an exorcist, too.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

“There did not seem to be any kindness in the world beyond my childhood and I could not go to the past.”
― Darcie Little Badger

“And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had previously only experienced through music. When they were worried, she experienced the squeals of violins, the quick-heartbeat thrum of a thriller soundtrack. Risk and Reign's bickering had the impact of a rattling gourd and snare drum. Oli's hopeful questions were reminiscent of the lo-fi hip-hop Nina played when she studied.”
― Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

“The luckiest had no personal experience with death.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Come on," Elli said, "Trevor, people aren't insects."
"Yeah," he said," They're much worse.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe