How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I saw myself now at the bottom of a deep shaft or walled into a cramped tomb. (15.12)
When the humans capture Wanderer, they immediately put her into solitary confinement. The aliens have forced them into a hole underground, and by goodness the humans are going to do the same thing to Wanda!
Quote #2
We're fugitives, an endangered species. (16.56)
Living in a cave, the humans are having to live like they did in caveman days: afraid of predators. Except now it isn't mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers; it's aliens wearing their bodies. That's a lot scarier than a cuddly mammoth. At least you can eat the mammoth.
Quote #3
"With no hiding place, we're all dead, right?" (17.5)
When living in imposed exile, a good hiding place is a must. Even better if it comes stocked with Cheetos and Keebler fudge cookies.
Quote #4
It was a very long day—very cramped and very dull (18.7)
Not only is Wanderer imprisoned in a tiny cave, she's not allowed much social interaction either. And as we've learned from all our talk about community, humans need companionship.
Quote #5
My prison was a sensory deprivation chamber. (18.50)
This prison is pretty much the worst. Wanderer has been put inside a human host to experience the world, and all she gets to experience is a cold, dark, cave. Plus, a soul's existence without a host is absolute sensory deprivation. In the prison hole, Wanda might as well not even have a body.
Quote #6
I felt my way back to my prison hole. (27.1)
When Wanda encounters something about the humans that she doesn't like, she willing exiles herself. That's a nice (or not-so-nice) physical reminder that she doesn't fit in with the rest of them.
Quote #7
I sat in the blackness of the big hole in the ground and grieved for lost souls with a human at my side. (40.142)
Here's another instance of Wanda willingly trying to exile herself from the humans. Ian, however, won't let her be by herself, no matter how hard she tries. Give a soul some space, dude!
Quote #8
I was surrounded, outnumbered. I imagined what this might feel like for Jared. (44.49)
Here, Wanda realizes that she's an exile from her own community. She's now identified herself with the humans, so she has to pretend to be normal around others of her species. She's passing, and it's not fun.
Quote #9
"The Flowers are the farthest, and the Dolphins, Bears, and Spiders all take at least a century to go one way." (53.45)
Without a host body, a soul is effectively in exile, unable to communicate with anything. Wanda wants to make sure they send the removed souls to a galaxy far, far away so they're not able to tattle on the humans. Or bring Jabba the Hutt back with them.
Quote #10
"I'm sorry, Sunny, but I have to send you far away." (55.136)
Sunny, the soul living inside of Kyle's girlfriend Jodi, is scared to be sent into space. She's only lived one other life, and prefers the human one, so this fate would be the worst kind of exile. We're not too crazy about this ending. Can't they find another body for her?