“Marcos recognizes Angela's eyes, holding the urgency and fear of a hunted animal right before it gets put out of its misery, before the boom, before it all goes dark.” FearMetaphorVulnerabilityAnimalism Book:Shark Heart Source: Shark Heart
“Wren did not see her mother as a sick woman living within a body she no longer knew or controlled. Instead, she saw a pathetic, powerless beast surrounded by murder, a mess of blood and guts. As rage bubbled up and spilled over, Wren sharpened a pernicious, worded arrow and lobbed it at the bull's-eye, her mother. "You are a monster."” HumanityTransformationMetamorphosisAnimalism Book:Shark Heart Source: Shark Heart
“We're perfectly fine without things and places. Things and places are how people live, and we are not people." "Well, I disagree.” HumanityAnimalism Book:Shark Heart Source: Shark Heart
“An incessant desire for fish became louder than all the things Lewis treasured: the heartbeat of language, the idea of living in a tree, the universal within the poetic, and his soft way of loving her.” ChangeTransformationHungerAnimalism Book:Shark Heart Source: Shark Heart