Quotes from book

Prodigal Summer

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”

“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

“I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

“A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.”

“Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.”

“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”

“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”