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“Most of all, Lewis wished he could tell his students that they transfigured his lonely ambition into a dream to change the world; how they were all artists of the highest caliber, fulfilling humankind's highest duty and delivering the message: faith lived in the darkest rooms.”

Art Faith Humanity

Book:Shark Heart

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“What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things.”

Humanity Womanhood

Book:Shark Heart

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“I am a very ill man if you see mutation as my doctors do. But if you perceive mutation in another way, as a transformation, you might see a dramatic form with many possibilities. I am unsure of many things, but I am sure of this: I want to spend my last months as a human being with you, making theater about human beings, for human beings.”

Humanity Transformation

Book:Shark Heart

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“After these sightings, Wren caught her mind wandering, wondering what it would be like to be an animal with such uncomplicated, reasonable fears.”

Humanity Animals

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“With her own mind and muscle, she, too, could engage the ever illusory margin between human and animal.”

Humanity Animals

Book:Shark Heart

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“(Was personally still a word he could use? Was he still a person?)”

Humanity Metamorphosis

Book:Shark Heart

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“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."”

Humanity Transformation Metamorphosis Animalism

Book:Shark Heart

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“We're perfectly fine without things and places. Things and places are how people live, and we are not people." "Well, I disagree.”

Humanity Animalism

Book:Shark Heart

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“Did she not see how the man she married was already irretrievable despite himself? Lewis hoped she wouldn't be the last to know.”

Humanity Loss Marriage Loss Of Self

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart