Lila Bowen Quotes

#1. Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything.

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#2. So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.

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#3. A creature is what it is, even if it can't show its true face.

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#4. Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.

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#5. She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter?

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#6. Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.

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#7. Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.

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#8. So like a man, to think there's safety among yet more men.

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#9. People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl." Nettie

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