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“To begin with she taught me how to tease wool, the process of preparing it for spinning. I learned to pull the wool off the fleece, take out the dirty and tangled bits, part the wool between my fingers until it was of even texture, and then comb it into delicate little rolls.
"It's the preparation that counts in spinning," Anghard said. "If you are lazy about that you will never spin an even thread."...
..."Wool is a living thing," she said once.”
― Monica Furlong, Juniper

“You wonder if the birds feel it, too, at dawn - the notion that any direction is just as well - when the water is pink as the sky. I'll bring Agnes next time so she can see it too. What she has seen, already, is how at night, the house - with the kitchen light burning - is like a glow at the back of a very dark throat.”
― Meghan Gilliss, Lungfish

“Perhaps you will tell us now what a Doran is."
"it is someone who loves all the creatures of the world, the animals, birds, plants, trees, and people, and who cannot bear to do any of them harm. It is someone who believes that they are all linked together and that therefore everything can be used to heal the pain and suffering of the world. It is someone who does not hate anybody and who is not frightened of anyone or anything.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child