Clam Down Quotes

“She finally understood the paradoxical necessity of hiding so one would no longer have to hide.”
― Anelise Chen, Clam Down: A Metamorphosis

“Everyone, everywhere, was undergoing something or other.”
― Anelise Chen, Clam Down: A Metamorphosis

“She had no doubt that the desire to enclose, to sequester, came from a place of sincere anxiety. She had no doubt that when certain people refused to acknowledge that the same air and water cycled around the globe, or, especially, that America didn’t exist in a bubble, it was to protect a sacred and urgent sense of sovereignty.”
― Anelise Chen, Clam Down: A Metamorphosis

“Animals in the sea spawn based on external cues. They watch the moon and monitor the water temperature carefully. When conditions are just right, they spew their sex cells straight into the water for a night of orgiastic mating. The moon serves as aphrodisiac and North Star. The moon tells you when to open and where to go, and sea creatures hold in their bodies a memory of the moonlight and its directives.”
― Anelise Chen, Clam Down: A Metamorphosis