" Your brother told me once, ‘Gaetan believes what he wants to.’ Do you
believe as your people do, or did some of the things they taught at the school
take root?”
About the time she wondered if not answering was his way of telling her to
mind her own business, he said, “My brother was wrong. If I could choose, I
would choose the Chihinne way. The things I learned in the school make that
impossible, so I believe what I can, not what I want to. "

― Ellen O'Connell , Dancing on Coals