“Rushing, like wind through a door, and Karou was the door, and the wind was coming home, and she as also the wind. She was all: wind and home and door. She rushed into herself and was filled. She let herself in and was full.”
“She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.”
“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
“What... is the wind in that door?”
“My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.”
“She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.”