Author: Malinda Lo

Cites

• Charles Darwin (2)
  • IN: Inheritance (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We care not how trifling a character may be - let it be the mere inflection of the angle of the jaw, the manner in which an insect's wing is folded, whether the skin be covered by hair or feathers - if it prevail throughout many and different species, especially those having very different habits of life, it assumes high value; for we can account for its presence in so many forms with such different habits, only by inheritance from a common parent.
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
  • IN: Adaptation (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The slightest advantage in certain individuals, at any age or during any season, over those with which they come into competition, or better adaptation in however slight a degree to the surrounding physical conditions, will, in the long run, turn the balance.
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK