11 quotes found
“There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.”
“Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.”
“...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.”
“To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.”
“...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.”
“We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.”
“But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into...”
“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg...”
“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”
“Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.”
“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I ...”
