After clouds, always mist, and another ghost story to tell. (p187) - Alexis Wright

The Aboriginal caretakers of their traditional country have always understood its power, and why it is so important to care for the land through developing an important system of laws that created great responsibility for caring for the stories and powers of the ancestors. These narratives of great and old wisdom are the true constitution for this country, and urgently need to be upfront in the national narrative in understanding how to care for it.

Her mind was only a lonely mansion for the stories of extinction. (p333)

it was exactly like what the old law people had always said would happen if you look after country, country will look after you.