His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?