Kayin and Abel Quotes

“Alone would have felt safer. I would have dissolved into the sands. Swept like dust into the abyss of unyielding land. Self is the safest covering.”
― Jessica Meek, Kayin and Abel: The Genesis of Sacrifice

“My seed,” she says, as she makes a ritual of rolling it in her braided hair. She will kill it by clutching at it forever. That is the way of seedless. They do not know cycle and seed. The lesson of seed is the illusion of losing. And of having.”
― Jessica Meek, Kayin and Abel: The Genesis of Sacrifice

“Bitterness can kill a soil. What the soft settlers do not know is that the lessons of the land are the lessons of mankind too.”
― Jessica Meek, Kayin and Abel: The Genesis of Sacrifice