No Bells to Toll Quotes

“She is an immense presence in the world. Tragedy and strength have so perfectly coalesced in her, as if one fed off the other. When she cries, it is not out of sorrow but out of a complex mass of emotions that address the trade-offs of life, the risks and the inevitable losses. Joy and sadness are two sides of the same thing.”
― Barbara Bode, No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes