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1 " By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her. "
― Eleanor Morse , White Dog Fell from the Sky
2 " Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing. "
3 " What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach. "
4 " It seemed that white people were the ones who believed in divine justice. That was because long ago, they'd come with their guns and greed and taken what they wanted. They'd long since forgotten what they'd done, and now they thought the land had always been theirs. "
― Eleanor Morse
5 " He believed in something larger than himself, but there was no evidence to point to someone or something listening to a man with brown leather shoes and a sweaty shirt. He didn't find this unusual or disturbing. Why should he be noticed when there were so many others to notice? It was like the dry blades of grass at his feet. Every blade was different, reaching for the sky in its own humble way, but from a goat's perspective, they were all the same: something to eat. "
6 " It's a fearful thing to love what death can touch. "
7 " We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know. "
8 " The world does not wish to be saved. It carries us a short distance and drops us when it’s done with us. "
9 " The Earth had a habit of begetting monsters, hatched from ignorance and greed. "
10 " [Liddie} looked at Bernie, tears in her eyes. 'What I want to say is this: Try not to do what I've done most of my life. Which is this. Keeping hurt places hidden. And then those places turn to anger, and I don't know where the anger comes from half the time. And that Anger pushes everyone away, and I'm left feeling all alone.''I need your father, and I need you.' She took a deep breath. 'It's not safe to love. There's no way to make love safe. Every time you love someone, you risk losing them. But living in safety is no way to live. "
― Eleanor Morse , Margreete's Harbor
11 " What is one person? Nothing. Ian had said something like this, that night they were talking by the fire. You get the proportions wrong and think your life is all that matters. It helped to remember, this small dot that she was. "
12 " What does it mean to be alive? To be curious. The opposite was dead. Margreete, for all her confusion, was never dead until she was dead. "
13 " ...end of an ox is beef, at the end of a lie is grief."White Dog Fell from the Sky (page 107) "
