Endangered Species Quotes

“Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

“Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the land of Oz”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

“Dead strangers evoked a smorgasbord of the lesser emotions and served as marvelous educational tools, warnings, and veiled threats. When an acquaintance was killed, it was closer to home; one knew some of the threads that tied the deceased to a common humanity. Without enough real connection to grieve, one was left in an uncomfortable place between curiosity and embarrassment.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

“you’re acting like a dog with a sore paw. We try and help you and you bite us.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

“soothing to the loggerhead as the lick of a pit bull to a newborn kitten.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species