India Curl

“Like snow melt
and passing leaves,
we show our faces
then are gone,
and like rivers we pour.”
― Don Hynes

“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling, that person is kept inside of snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The fire on the mountain.” That was Anna. “Alchemy,” she said. “I feel it singing in my bones.”
“Singing?” Mary would never understand Anna. The young woman turned away.
Wiseman’s reply was tinged with respect.
“That great pair of alchemists, Francis Ransome and Roberta Le More, believed the work they did affected the world’s spirit, the anima mundi. The Native Americans they met believed they too could and should interact with the Great Spirit. They lived with reverence for the land and all its peoples, the ancestors, the animals, the rocks, the trees, mountains.” 
Mary’s jaw dropped; Caroline glowed; Anna pretended not to listen. Wiseman nodded, then continued.
“You mean…?” began Mary.
“Yes, it could have been so different, a meeting of like-minded earth-based spiritualities. Just imagine, what could have been?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Exactement," said Vidal. "We surmise the killer limp off with use of a cane. The lights man must have seen the interloper, made to intervene, and was beaten by the cane and then garroted with it by the ropes, making lights to go out."
 ”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth