“No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.”

“No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.”

“His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.”

“The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.”

“There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.”

“No man should live longer than his teeth.”

“She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.”