"She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones."
- Kim Edwards
"You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down."
"Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerpri..."
"Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus, the residue of the day reassembling itself in some d..."
"... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]"
"After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?"
"It's funny how things seem different, suddenly."
"No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart."
"The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's no..."
"Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea."