It came from a different person, a person who had learned how to build a voice from the ruins up, a person who had lost everything and had begun from… - Kathleen Winter

This was a passage in which everyone moved and was unfathomable, which was how Thomasina saw people. She was not a person who froze someone's character in her mind, calling this one egotistical and that one not nearly confident enough and another one truthful or untruthful. To Thomasina people were rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.

…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

... because I read about them. Anything I know about I've usually read, even a lot of what I know about trapping. I get a lot from books.