Naomi

“Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid of the vast silence.” | Kaggen said. “We all must walk the lands of dust until the seventh silence comes, and then we leave, our footsteps blown away on the wind, carried into the hearts of our children and our children’s children.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“A new trunk had grown, covering the scar of the burn with thick new growth. Not hiding it, no, for the past could never be hidden, but embracing it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present formed one unified trunk that continued to shelter our people as we lived on in the shadows of the great Blue Mountains that had seen an eternity and stood ready to face another.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“Ah, Letty,’ he said, bowing his head. ‘You were never lost. You were only following your dream.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“These humans, these creatures who play at kindness, are each ruled by wounds that, when triggered, make them the opposite of kind. Often, they justify their actions with excuses as shallow as a rain puddle, unable to see that I have my own kind of beauty simply because I’m a mermaid.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories