“Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.”
“Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.”
“In short, missionaries are scaring people into changing their behavior and abandoning their tradition. They are destroying entire cultures for the single purpose of expanding their traditions. They are no different that corporate raiders, and that makes them decidedly immoral.”
“Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.”
“Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.”
“It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ”