Wolf-Alice

"She grew up with wild beasts. If you could transport her, in her filth, rags and feral disorder, to the Eden of our first beginnings where Eve and grunting Adam squat on a daisy bank, picking the lice from one another's pelts, then she might prove to be the wise child who leads them all and her silence and her howling a language as authentic as any language of nature. In a world of talking beasts and flowers, she would be the bud of flesh in the kind lion's mouth: * but how can the bitten apple flesh out its scar again?" *

I felt a deep sense of pity for this girl who tried to raise herself without a mother or anyone to teach her. I love this quote because it brings Carter back to a sense of normalcy. Her stories are strange, different, and beautiful. Although her sense of beauty is not the kind I would describe it as. There is a lot in her stories. I love how in this quote she chases a "what-if". She sympathizes with wolf-alice. She sticks up for her deficiencies and claims that if she could turn back the clock wolf-alice would be the best of their kind.