Amber

“What had Deidamia thought would happen, I wondered, when she had her women dance for me. Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell. I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and the way his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles of Ac

“Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else?”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“There was a sound like a rush of wings in the blackish clouds, and I knew his spirit had left him. I imagined it like a great flock of birds, soaring, scattering, coming to rest everywhere.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we’ll find the God that exists behind them.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings