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In “I, the Elephant, Wrote This,” the elephant gives birth to a daughter. She grows up with her cousin, the elephant’s nephew, who’s the same age. The elephant adores her daughter, though she’s disturbed when her daughter and nephew express so much interest in the story of Castor and Pollux.
Daughter Quotes in Only the Animals
The Only the Animals quotes below are all either spoken by Daughter or refer to Daughter. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I, the Elephant, Wrote This: Soul of Elephant
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“A zoo,” she said to them, “is a very dangerous place for an animal in wartime, for it can mean the difference between life and death for the human inhabitants of a city. But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris.”
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Daughter Quotes in Only the Animals
The Only the Animals quotes below are all either spoken by Daughter or refer to Daughter. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
I, the Elephant, Wrote This: Soul of Elephant
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“A zoo,” she said to them, “is a very dangerous place for an animal in wartime, for it can mean the difference between life and death for the human inhabitants of a city. But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris.”
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