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"I ran my fingertips across it, and then my nails, as if it might be better if I had real bruises to match those he'd left on my pride. Would it have been different, I wondered, if I'd been able to explain to him what electricity was?"

"It was unbecoming, this hunger of mine. I knew that all too well."

"We were all made of the same stuff, it seemed; the most significant difference between myself and the whale was not our species, nor our size, but the fact that I was alive and it was dead."

"I could not help but feel how cruel it was that after all this time, I should have to suffer this conversation yet again--for if there exists a way to respond to condolences that does not feel like ripping open the stitches of a wound with one's teeth, I have not yet found it."