Sublime

Readers do half the work of a book’s life; that means we must do half the heavy lifting of its project.

In myths, people turn into all kinds of things. Birds, animals, trees, flowers, rivers. Why not an American named Winston?

indignation.

abnegation,

Conglomerates are the movement of land in the freedom of water, smoothed into a small thing you can hold in your hand, rub against your face.

It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman holds another woman, and she in turn lifts the world.