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“I’ve been avoiding the things about me that are weird—the parts I don’t want to see, the inconvenient truths” (Nukaga 83).

“It felt gross. Frightening. Uncomfortable. Yet there was also an almost touching, faint sense of pleasure to it” (Nukaga 75).

“It didn’t matter what he was. I just wanted to be with him again” (Nukaga 68).

“Her grip was so annoyingly strong that he almost wanted to fling the change away” (Nukaga 53).

“He’d always fawned over humans who had food, but this time, there was clear hostility and wariness deep within his golden eyes” (Nukaga 21).

“No matter how much the outside world changes, the villiage’ll stay the same ’til the Earth sees its own destruction” (Nukaga 13).

"I didn't want to make you suffer again Mama" (Nukago 2).