# Quote — Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber

> 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.

- Author: [Nalo Hopkinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson.md)
- Book: [Midnight Robber](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/midnight-robber.md)
- Page: 104
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nalo_Hopkinson#Midnight_Robber_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/midnight-robber/this-was-a-thing

## More from this book

> Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/midnight-robber/come-in-peace.md)

> She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!

p. 314 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/midnight-robber/she-was-hiding.md)

> She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.

p. 217 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/midnight-robber/she-just-wanted.md)