"Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win."

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Source : Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

Nancy Farmer

#Giving Up Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Animal Quotes

“If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?”
“He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.”
“McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.”
“If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.”
“'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.”
“Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.”
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
“I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.”

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