The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream. - Louise Erdrich

When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in. (p221)

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.