“Mackenzies buried a rapist at a crossroads, with a spear thrust in the soil above; and they buried him living when they could, as a sacrifice to turn aside the anger of the Earth Powers.”
“Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.”
“What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?”
“In a fleshly Tomb, I am Buried above ground.”
“Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.”
“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”