Cindy Ayee

“My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible. ”
― Alice Hoffman, Incantation

“Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said...
And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.”
― Alice Hoffman, Incantation

“Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.”
― Alice Hoffman, Incantation

“Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment. ”
― Alice Hoffman, Incantation