“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.”
“If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.”
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
“All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.”
“She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.”
“We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.”