Emily

“We're told that wild animals don't murder one another, only people do. In the animal kingdom there is supposedly an "I won't kill you if you don't kill me" arrangement between members of the same species. Aggression is all bluff and ritual, for nobody wants to get seriously hurt. I was thinking about a wild dog named Wodan tonight. Maybe the Falcon males hadn't meant to kill him. But I just saw murder today for sure. Animals kill their own kind, and they do it on purpose.”
― George Frame, Swift and Enduring: 2

“A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.”
― Timothy Zahn, Deadman Switch

“Fortune was an invisible, unconquerable creature that ruled commonfolk and noble alike.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“Knowing causation is far more useful than knowing association.”
― Paul W. Ewald, Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancer, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments