Bringer of Dust Quotes

“Who we are acquires its shape through the choices we make, and go on making. Do you see? There is no right course. We just do what we can. And after a while the choices we make are all in conversation with the ones we’ve made before.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Sometimes it was like living wasn’t anything more than just surviving. And surviving? That was just a matter of how much you could stand to lose, before you weren’t you anymore.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Home isn’t a place you go to. It’s something you carry with you.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Tradition is not what we remember, but what we have not yet forgotten.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Sometimes you don’t get to know for sure,” he said gently. “Sometimes you just got to trust what’s in your heart. You taught me that yourself, long ago.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Their coming was like the winds of death.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“We can only do our best, child,” Miss Davenshaw murmured into her ear. “Our best, and no more.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Her name’s not recorded here. Women’s names never are.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Are we not … all we can … imagine…,”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Sometimes it’s like life is just all about taking what you can’t say no to, and going on anyway, you know?” “I do,” she whispered.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“You must resist what you are, to become what you will be.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“You’ve grown cruel,” he said quietly. “I’ve learned to save my kindness for those who deserve it,” she replied.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Are we not all we can imagine?”
― J. M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“What … what are you?” she whispered. Oh, child. Are we not all we can imagine?”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“I’ll tell you a secret,” she said gently. “There aren’t any grown-ups, Charlie. Not in the way you mean it. There’s only just children what’s gone and got too far away from their own childhoods. Sure, their bodies is all grown. But on the inside, everyone’s all just about the same size.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Thing was, you just had to keep your eyes open, if you wanted to see the good in a person. Just look close. Maybe you had to look a little closer with some people, like Dr. Berghast. And maybe the good wasn’t always equal to the bad. But it was in there somewhere all the same, he decided.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Home isn’t a place you go to. It’s something you carry with you. And I lost mine a lifetime ago.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“Who we are acquires its shape through the choices we make, and go on making. Do you see? There is no right course. We just do what we can. And after a while the choices we make are all in conversation with the ones we’ve made before. It took me a long time to see this. I’m making a choice now, here.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust

“He said a scar is just our body remembering the world. There’s a story there, he’d say, about how you got to be you.”
― J.M. Miro, Bringer of Dust