“All these are true and none. The place is thereIs what we name it, and is not. It is.”
“Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins.”
“What's her name?""None of your business.""That can't possibly be her name.”
“None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us.”
“For loss is what we live with all the time. / None knows this better than the mind should know, the mind / that wanders, and cannot tell our name, itself / all seeds and survivals, little else, poor blind.”
“All religions are true but none are literal.”