“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

“I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.”

“I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.”

“He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything.”

“the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.”

“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”

“People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”