“When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky and earth in your body same time, to fly while earthbound?”
― When We Were Birds
― When We Were Birds
“He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is silence, stillness. Nothing more.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.”
― Arrow of God
― Arrow of God
“Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
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