Maria

“But why should they have a leader? Why should they not roam like wild things? For they were wild things. Why should they have a purpose? For they were wild things.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“So she sang back silently to them, as a comfort, there in the cell, and when the moonlight lay thick and bright against the gritty cheek of the sand dune, the foxes would gambol and prance for the sheer delight of it and beckon her to join them, would let her into their minds that she might know what it was to gambol and to prance on those four legs, then these four legs, to see the world from a fox’s level. It was almost like flying. Almost.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“It came from the woods. Most strange things do.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods