The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf Quotes

“I walk among my enemies. But I carry my friends with me.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“Death is a great transformation. But it is not an end.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“Ember had told me once that she'd known a girl who wanted to die until someone had spoken six words to her that made her decide to live instead. I'd asked what the magic words were, and she said it didn't matter; the point was that no one ever knows when something they say will cause a profound change in somebody else.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“I bared my teeth at him. “There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will breach the walls. Skychangers will send lightning to strike you all down from above, and Rumblers will open the earth to swallow you up from below. There will be nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and no way to stop them from freeing every single Illegal in this centre. And when that day comes, Justin Connor, think of me.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“It [advanced technology] had isolated the people of the old world from nature, shielding them from the consequences of imbalance, and yet they’d believed, right up until the very end, that it would save them. But…advances in technology could never compensate for failures in empathy.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“It isn't going to be people like me that will cause the end of the world, Neville. It'll be people like you.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“...the point was that no one ever knows when something they say will cause a profound change in somebody else”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“I stared up at the tuarts that towered over all the other plant life of the forest. They were so tall I could barely make out the tops, and so wide that Georgie and I would've had to join hands with about ten other people to circle the trunks.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

“From behind me, Jaz let out an outraged cry, "Ash! I can take care of myself. I'm saur!"
I ignored him, and so did Hatches. She pranced closer, and pictures started to form in my mind, giving me a view of the world from the perspective of the smallest of the saurs. Trying to join in games with the others, and always being pushed away. Having her meat killed for eve, even though the other younglings were hunting for themselves. Swimming in the shallows of the seven pools while the others leaped from the rocks into the deeps. Then came images of the new saur who was even smaller than she was. Jaz flinging himself into a saur game, being immediately tossed out, and diving right back in again. Jaz trying to eat raw meat, throwing up, and starting a cooking fire that set the grasses alight and had to be stomped out with tough saur feet. Jaz chattering endlessly - would Hatches help him shape very small rocks so he could glue them to his fingers to make claws? Could Hatches listen to him practise his hissing to see if he had it right? Did Hatches think, if he was extra good, that Tramples-my-Enemies might let him ride on his back?”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf