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

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

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.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

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

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.