“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
“A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.”
“Oh, Marya Morevna! Do you know how the church-folk call me, me and my daughter Gamayun, when they paint us on their ceilings? They call us archangels, and say that we live in heaven, where no vine of sorrow or memory grows. That is where I sent you, not to heaven—tscha! I know nothing of that place. But to a place like the ceiling of a church.”
“Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”