“Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves.”

“Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (...) So they moved with the snow, became part of the snowstorm which drifted up against the trees and fences. And when they died, frozen solid against a fence, with the snow drifted around their heads? "Ah, Tayo," Josiah said, "the wind convinced them they were the ice.”

“Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.”

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

“Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.”