Love is alcohol.
Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have-.
Salt! Salt! And grease! Greee-suh!”Ax.
Lesson Number One in Everworld: There’s them, and there’s us. And any day we can keep them from destroying us, that’s a victory.
It’s not so bad, I wanted to tell the little boy. With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.
Maybe dreams aren’t in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.
David, when it happens... when it happens, David, will you save me?
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
Old age is a powerful disguise.
Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.
I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.
I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
It’s hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We’re dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.