Bee

“Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein