Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.