“A huge impatience overcame me. Maybe it was impatience to find out what death was like, since life had been so different than anybody said.” LifeDeathFearCourage Book:Listening at the Gate Source: Listening at the Gate
“I am dying,’ she said. ‘I want you to paint the goddess on my hand. When I go to that other land I shall hold up my hand—’ she held it up ‘and greet her. She has given me a good life.’… ‘Aye,’ said the old woman. ‘Imoy, there she is. Here we paint her looking down to see us, but this is better. Her eyes are open, she will know me.” LifeDeathDyingGoddess Book:Roadsouls Source: Roadsouls
“What followed her stayed just out of sight in the woods and deep grasses. It was quiet. She was not sure what it waited for; it ought to have eaten her before she had walked so far with nothing but grubs for dinner. Her arms looked narrow, and even her hurt wrist looked thin. She thought, At my right hand Raím follows me in the mountain. He is a ghost; I am becoming a ghost. When I have walked to the end of the mountain he will be there, and I shall lie down against his shoulder, and stop walking, and be safe.” LoveLifeDeathFearSurvivalSurrenderGhost Book:Roadsouls Source: Roadsouls