The Revenants Quotes

“We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream. ”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants

“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants

“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth. ”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants

“Only fools insist upon life at any cost.... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where does it go, after all, but into the keeping of the Powers who gave it and will give it once again?”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants