Exile's End Quotes

“How do you lose your name?
When people stop telling your story.
Why must we tell our story?
Because others start telling it for us.”
― Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

“He came to the prison of ghosts;

For Hoarder people do not free their dead.

Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past

They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom

They heap up secrets in an archive

And lock the doors to keep them in.

How do you free a ghost?”
― Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

“Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey

Of the man who was not a man

Sent by the Whispering Kindom

To search the sky for ghosts.

How did he find the way?

He followed the poison papers,

He followed the scent of secrets

He followed the footsteps of ashes,

Retracing the path of exile.

Can reversing exile set it right?”
― Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End