The Marrow Thieves Quotes

“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“she settled her chin in the crook of my collarbone. Her breath poured into the space like tea into a cup.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“When we heal our land, we are healed also.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of the dream, the bigger dream that held us all. Anything. Everything.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Sometimes the path in front of you alters. Sometimes it goes through some pretty dark territory. Just make sure it doesn't change the intent of the trip. As long as the intent is good, nothing else matters. Not in these days, son.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“When we finally convinced ourselves to move, to make the day real, the sky was a cerulean blue with a light gauze of striated clouds.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Running only works if you're moving towards something, not away. Otherwise, you'll never get anywhere.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes. And surrounded by these silent trees, beside a calming fire, I watched the bones dance. This was our medicine, these bones, and I opened up and took it all in. And dreamed of north.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“In some ways we were still happy. Issac had his words, both English and Cree, and I had my Issac.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“I felt content, maybe even a little more than that. I was alive and climbing a tree and a girl I was weak for was safe on the ground below. And I was doing something strong to keep her safe, to keep all of them safe. I felt old-timey, and something lush burst open in my chest.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Better to be in the forest, I thought. Where the dreams were shrouded in fog and cold and the group knew its order and stride by the weight of our want.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“But for now, like always, we couldn't sit around on the couches and contemplate our world and what might lie ahead. We were outside, getting ready.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Everything.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“He said we were lucky we didn’t remember how it [the world] had been, so we had less to mourn.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Rot and damp and hopelessness and hunger and fear and anger twisted up in a clamp around my ribcage.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“She reached for our hands and squeezed them, breathing deep and full like a prayer, chewing her bottom lip like penance.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“I was ok with my decision, but not ok with the consequences.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves