Anna

“they leave behind the places where their dead are buried – their mothers and fathers. The dead are bound to that place, and have returned to the land there. Because of this, Natives who are forced out of their homelands no longer have connections to their ancestors, and thus, to the spirit world. Their medicines no longer work. Their prayers are no longer”
― Felix Blackwell, Stolen Tongues

“You know when you’re a kid and you see a shadow on your wall at night, and it looks like a monster? Or when you see animals in the clouds? That’s pareidolia. And it happens with sound, too. The wind blows through a cave or something just right, and people think they hear a voice. Your brain even makes words out of it, in the language you know best.”
― Felix Blackwell, Stolen Tongues

“A man can only stare at the shadows for so long before they drive him insane.”
― Felix Blackwell, Stolen Tongues

“But hours later, near the approach of dawn, Faye sat straight up in bed and sucked in a huge breath. The sound woke me up, and I instinctively grabbed the trashcan I'd set near the bed, preparing to catch a volley of barf. Instead, she grabbed my arm with surprising strength. With her eyes still closed, she looked right into my face, and said,
"Tell the man in the hall...he needs to leave."
Petrified, I slipped away from her grasp and peeked out the door into the long hallway. There was no one.”
― Felix Blackwell, Stolen Tongues