We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.