"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

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