Quotes from book

Book of a Thousand Days

“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”

“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.”

“… and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.”

“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”

“Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.”

“But the hoping, that's what really hurts.”

“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”

“My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.”

“I do like the world quite a lot.”

“Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.”