Vanishing Act Quotes

“Her mother’s voice began to hum to her softly, tunelessly. Jane whispered, “How did you come?” “I’m not out there anymore, Jane. I’m inside you now, and my mother is inside me, and her mother is inside her, all the way back. We’re all here, just like those Russian dolls, one inside the other.”
― Thomas Perry, Vanishing Act

“The coast of California was a sad place for Indians: Chumash, Gabrieleno, Cupeño, Tataviam, Luiseño, Costanoan, Miwok, Ipa, Salinan, Esselen—all either exterminated by 1900 or down to 1 percent of the 300,000 people the priests had counted when they took their first inventory of souls.”
― Thomas Perry, Vanishing Act