55 Quotes by Eliot Schrefer

…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone’s benefitting.

She positions herself on a stool in front of a giant washing machine, watching her garments twirl in flashing patterns of red and white on a sea of black. It subdues her, that clothes can be washed in Boston or Rome and look the same for it, that she can step on an airplane and be anywhere else in the civilized world within a day and wear the same clothes and be the same person. That the small realities stay knitted together!

He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of surviving

Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees

But it had always been my mom's philosophy that the way we treat animals goes hand in hand with the way we treat people, and so she would dedicate her life to stopping men like this one, bushmeat traders hoping for sale

Saving myself would mean destroying him.

I knew at least Banalia was dead; that had happened right in front of my eyes. They would either eat her now or smoke her body to sell the meat. It made my stomach turn – the DNA in that meat was almost 99 percent the same as human DNA; it was nearly cannibalism. But the men were hungry.

You have to learn when to ignore suffering so that you’re strong enough to fight it when the time is right.

Everyone here constantly laughed at tragedy, as if insulting misfortune would keep it at bay.