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“Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all…

— Louise Erdrich

“As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the…

— Louise Erdrich

“Something of Eva’s disturbing beauty, slow-burning sensuality and razor-sharp mind was reflected in it.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a…

— Louise Erdrich

“Eva sipped her coffee. Today, her hair was bound back in a singular knot, the sides rolled in smooth twists, the knot itself in…

— Louise Erdrich

“I detected the fragrance of Delgadina's soul as she slept on her side.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her soul. She remembered the first night she…

— Frank L. DeSilva

“Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking down from…

— David Mitchell

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“She felt the night air on her, pretending she was somewhere else, in some other time. She often did this before she did something…

— Adrienne Maree Brown

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in…

— Vladimir Nabokov