My mother’s people called me Two Feet. One white foot, one Pawnee foot, but I am not split down the middle, straddling two worlds. I am simply a stranger in both.
“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“To be listened to is healing,”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“This is the covenant of water: that they’re all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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