“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 evil. It is part of life, and sorrow is its natural consequence.” — 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
