“She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.”

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

“...Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness”

“If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.”

“When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. But Mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the creamatorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rain forests in Brazil, or snow somewhere.”

“Feather to fire,fire to bloodBlood to bone,bone to marrowMarrow to ashes,ashes to snow”