Anger only gets in the way.

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?

"Give me liberty or give me death." A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

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.

Anger only gets in the way.

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.