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"She's been trying to teach you this wisdom her entire life, by the way, and when she's gone it'll be all you want to know."

is from
Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e6040602-23a0-43bc-b775-dc7df4a804d3


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"If bees were scientists, they might marvel at the color we know as red, which they cannot see and which they might call 'ultrayellow.'"

is from An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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"It was good to chat, as people had done before the world grew so dire, and all contact had the quality of risk, and all the concatenated sorrows of the world seemed to drain away the pleasure of conversation from young people."

is from Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
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is again from Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

"... an image formed in Kit's mind of this huge smiling crowd that occupied all of Ontario, millions moving in unison, their eyes fixed on a brilliant future, children raised in those efficient government-built habitats ..."

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"There are hives all over the park where, right now, the bees would be crowding together to keep the temperature up, would be taking turns to be circled and warmed by all the other bees, would be tending to the year's future bees in their cells..."

is from Ali Smith, Public Library and Other Stories
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