The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.