“Whats wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why youre not beside me.”

“Theres something different about him, and I dont have to think hard to see it. Something about the way he takes over a room, the way he looks at me, like he has already identified and can disarm ev...”

“Society is better off with me in a gym.”

“Must have been some kind a nightmare.Yeah, I answer, my usual calm, vacant voice returning. Cant wait to wake up.”

“No human can bury their past indefinitely. Its only a matter of time before you crack.”

“He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. Im paralyzed. I swear hes going to kiss me. I swear Im going to let him.”

“At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the worlds rivers, betwe...”

“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”

“I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the...”

“Whats wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why youre not beside me.”

“No human can bury their past indefinitely. Its only a matter of time before you crack.”

“He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. Im paralyzed. I swear hes going to kiss me. I swear Im going to let him.”

“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.”