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Science Quotes
Scientists were nothing but people who asked silly questions. (4.23)
Religion Quotes
Once we were dolphins and Imo made us into men! [...] If that wasn't true, then there was just dark water and nothing was anything... (3.117)
Foreignness and the Other Quotes
The young man was what [Daphne's] grandmother would have called a savage, too. But he hadn't been a savage. [Daphne] had watched him bury all those people in the sea. (3.67)
Coming of Age Quotes
They had all been waiting, for someone who was no longer a boy but had yet to become a man. (2.16)
Language and Communication Quotes
Mau was good at reading important things. He could read the sea, the weather, the tracks of animals, tattoos, and the night sky. (2.65)
Men and Masculinity Quotes
If you didn't know the way, you weren't a man. (1.68)
Women & Femininity Quotes
[Mau] didn't know how to make a ghost bag. That was a woman's task. (2.147)
Life, Consciousness, and Existence Quotes
"I could see you thinking. Not many people think, not really think." (2.114)
Death Quotes
I am become like Locaha, measuring the contours of death. (2.23)