Given to the Earth Quotes

“Khosa leans into him, her forehead against his. 'Then, my son, you shall teach me.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“He will be remembered among the best of the kings.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“As we were born together, so we die. We are given to the earth.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“To the future then. May it come quickly.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“My wife shoves me lightly, and I pull her to me as we laugh, rolling together in the bed. And we are very, very distracted.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“I pepare for my wedding as if I were going to battle, hands steady, breathing even, eyes sharp.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“The word slips from her tongue as it has become a habit of late, acompliment she can pay with her mouth if not her body. It drops now between them as a lie, and his face twists in pain.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Vincent and Khosa look on, hands clasped, as the rising heat evaporates their tears and the smoke rises, smelling of nilflower.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“A bitter smile twists her face at the thought that her body has found yet another way to betray her.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Yet there is only desire in his voice at odds with his words, and I only nod that I have heard, not trusting myself to speak, that he may not hear the same in my own.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Though my mind is made up, my heart wants vengeance.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“In this moment, her body wants only Donil, and she has him, to the very end.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“I have made a stick into a spear. Now to make a jailer into a corpse.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Forest animals seek out a dark place to die. Donil always said it was so they can defend themselves, spine against stone, ready to fight until the last moment.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“The young will do as they must.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Outrage is for the young; change for the strong of heart”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Dying is a slow, torturous process”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“When I open a living thing with my words, I open myself too, become a gaping mouth into which power flows, and I draw until I can hold no more.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“The curator picks his nose.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“You know Stille well?'
'The dark places.'
'The dark places are what interests me.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“You lifted a rock and disturbed the ants; you cannot expect they will crawl out fro underneath to see if you'll stand by.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“Often I think you'd have made an excellent Lithos. And then you open your mouth.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth

“It is in my blood. It is in my bone. It is in my being. Before my mother became earth, she told us our names, her final thought becoming our first as my twin brother and I crawled from the pit that held our slaughtered people, our infant feet now the last on this land to carry the Indiri marks.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Earth