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1 " We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across. "
― Cherie Dimaline , The Marrow Thieves
2 " Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it. "
3 " I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true. "
4 " she settled her chin in the crook of my collarbone. Her breath poured into the space like tea into a cup. "
5 " When we heal our land, we are healed also. "
6 " Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with? "
7 " Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes. "
8 " But for now, like always, we couldn't sit around on the couches and contemplate our world and what might lie ahead. We were outside, getting ready. "
9 " Better to be in the forest, I thought. Where the dreams were shrouded in fog and cold and the group knew its order and stride by the weight of our want. "
10 " I felt content, maybe even a little more than that. I was alive and climbing a tree and a girl I was weak for was safe on the ground below. And I was doing something strong to keep her safe, to keep all of them safe. I felt old-timey, and something lush burst open in my chest. "
11 " And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of the dream, the bigger dream that held us all. Anything. Everything. "
12 " Sometimes the path in front of you alters. Sometimes it goes through some pretty dark territory. Just make sure it doesn't change the intent of the trip. As long as the intent is good, nothing else matters. Not in these days, son. "
