I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.