She Unnames Them Quotes

“They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier: so close that my fear of them and their fear of me became one same fear. And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to smell one another’s smells, feel or rub or caress one another’s scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another’s blood or flesh, keep one another warm— that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, She Unnames Them