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“Presumably, as their imagination developed, their fear of death would increase, and eventually the People would project this fear into the darkness and fill it with spirits.”
― Jack London

“Because even lower animals do not treat their females so badly or kill them. From this perspective, I see Redeye as a harbinger of humanity, despite his lack of progress since the time of his ancestors, because only the male of the human species kills the female.”
― Jack London, Before Adam & Other Stories

“When Jane woke up, her friend Helen was dead. That chapter: every night, every one, I lay down and hugged my pillow and pretended it was Helen, but I didn’t fall asleep like that idiot Jane, oh no. I watched her die, I held her hand, and she, who was expiring with her gray gaze fixed on my eyes as she fought for breath, allowed me to see something of that other place where she would spend eternity.”
― Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

“And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea