“[Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then.”

“If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see more ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from.”

“I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.”

“Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me”

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

“I say, Show me the way. You say, Put your head under your feet. That way you rise through the starsand see a hundred different ways to be with me.”