“Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, E...”

“Im never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a we...”

“I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You...”

“So she quit working to make sense of things we dont realise it, but its hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened ...”

“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”

“What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if shed ever told him that, and if so, what he had to say about it. Someone you made up turns around and tel...”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”