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“Women are keepers of a different sort. Keepers of children. Keepers of the clans. Through the ages, women have been needed elsewhere. We men were more expendable. We are still more expendable.
But Ghost’s death was not what he feared most. Her life—her presence in his life—scared him even more than her loss, for he knew how to mourn. He knew how to survive tragedy, to abide grief. But he wasn’t sure he could withstand love.
without light and belief, everything is darkness, and everything and everyone becomes the enemy.”
“Because the beauty of the fall was worth the pain of landing.”
“We do not live to endure. We endure so someday we can . . . live.
“He made his mouth weak for a purpose. Just as he made you the way you are for a purpose. He made your mouth weak to keep your heart strong.”
Home is inside of us. Home is the people we love. Home is what we strive for.
“I am Desdemona. I am Alannah. I am Ivo, and I am Bayr. I am the daughters of the clans, and the keepers of the temple. I am Alba’s mother, and Dagmar’s friend.” Her voice broke on Dagmar’s name, but she pressed on. “I am everyone you have wronged. And I am Ghost, the new Highest Keeper.”
