This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal's secret body just to eat it.


Section 2 (p. 104) - Midnight Robber (2000)

Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was...

This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was...

This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was...

This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was...