In the Shadow of the Cypress Quotes

“Even in the early dusk, the immortal Chang’e cast her immutable splendor out over the bay in penetrating shafts of silver light, each broadening into a highway of dancing reflections leading back to the feet of the goddess herself.”
― Thomas Steinbeck, In the Shadow of the Cypress

“After all, if one assembled all the bones of all the known saints that now reside in treasured reliquaries in Catholic churches all over Christendom, you’d certainly have more bones than saints.”
― Thomas Steinbeck, In the Shadow of the Cypress