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At this point in my reading over the last year, I've learned way too much about how humans are really good at killing things.

"Southwestern Hispanos have a rich folk tradition about coyotes and have long said that the only thing smarter than a coyote is God."

"To do that successfully, I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started 10 years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait 20 years."

One of the things I love about this book is how it feels dreamlike in a way. Simultaneously simple and complex.

it's time to revisit this gem

Highly recommend reading this instead of cleaning and packing boxes.

Reading about someone else's struggle to afford to live somewhere they can bring their beloved pet, and coming to terms they must leave the place their pet loves, and hoping they're happy in the new place.

It's too real for me right now.

Dr. Lilly reference lmaooo

'Dr. Lilly has tried, in vain, to teach English to dolphins. But dolphins only speak dolphinese.'

Obsessed with quote 😆

'Humpback whales...are endowed with a suppleness and a grace that are reminiscent simultaneously of a swallow and a Boeing 707.'

'I have often felt a sense of bitterness, or rather of impotence, when confronted with the thought that... these marvels of nature are beyond us, beyond our senses, beyond our experience....because they belong to a race of giants that requires of man an intellectual and emotional flexibility, an understanding, a willingness to break away from traditional concepts, that is perhaps beyond him.'

'The harpoon cannon not only destroyed myth, legend, poetry, and Moby Dick, the white whale; it also brought into question the very survival of the largest beings on the face of the earth.'

I need to read about whales now.

Only 37 pages in and this book is already making me feel crazy.

Not feeling as strong as it started off.
The plot escalation took off like a rocket and it feels like as many characters are being jammed in as possible. But. We'll see.
I want more of the feeling Cara and Dell's tension gives.