You’re forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we’re not doomed, are we? - Louise Erdrich

Girls were not named for flowers, as flowers died so quickly. Girls were named for deathless things - forms of light, forms of cloud, shapes of stars, that which appears and disappears like an island on the horizon.

You can’t get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.

Watching him closely after he paid for the books and took the package into his hands, I saw his pupils dilate the way a diner's do when food is brought to the table.