Overgrowth

by Mira Grant

Sometimes retreat is your only way to take the resources your enemy wants away.

It’s easier to hate people when you like them, and on that paradox is the whole of human experience constructed.

“For an oxygen-sucking primate, you’re all right.”

It’s about telling us what form the rebellion will take. We can’t afford to be cats chasing mice. We can’t afford not to care. We have to know how the mice think.

I won’t say I’m sorry for something I never got to decide to do.

“You’re so beautiful,” I whispered. She had no mouth. She had no lips. And still, I felt she smiled.

I have no mouth and yet I must scream

If I’m going to be a hydrangea, I’m going to do some serious damage to my lipids first.”