“We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”

“But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.”

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

“He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.”

“What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.”

“Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.And what we remember.”

“There comes a time when every one of our people understands that a Jew can never be attached to a place. The rules always change, and we always lose. People will always despise us, and we must be ready to fly away. We cannot have roots in the earth of any country, only in the garden that we carry inside us.”