“Is that how the song goes? It's the chorus.”
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.”
“Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.”
“By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.”
“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
“She could feel the common blood song inside the place, the chorus of ancestors moving about in familiar constellations.”