“Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And endurable.” — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“She looked at him. He saw her tendrils of damp hair. He looked off, but he had never felt this thing so deep before,… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“The country was so vast, of course, that one or a hundred or a thousand men could have very little effect. And how, anyway,… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“He looked around, saw himself mirrored in that man walking back with his rifle. And suddenly, it seemed possible to him that we might… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“We cannot choose, he thought, the people we're born into nor what they teach us. So that opposition exists, and appears to us as… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end…For every… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
