If you said no, no, no, and kept your claws in a people's heart, what else did you want but that they should all die? - Bessie Emery Head

No words, however wise, could explain the awfulness of the death, not while the living were firmly attached to love, child-bearing, child-rearing, hunger, struggle, and the sunrise of tomorrow. Life had to flow all the time, for the living, like water in a stream.

'God isn't a magical formula for me,' ... 'God isn't a switched-on, mysterious, unknown current. I can turn to and, by doing so, feel secure in my own nobility.

“they cannot exist unless they can live in the village insuch a way that the changes that they bring about are necessary … in determining who they are