Em (emblazed.words)

“Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that runs into the ocean and becomes a whale. It is said that the two animals share a spirit.
I'd been sent a vision, though I didn't know by whom. Sila, perhaps. Or Singarti. Maybe even Ataata. I couldn't speak to them, couldn't summon them- but I could watch. I could listen. And I thought I understood their message.
The wolf is not bound to its shape. I can change form at will, transforming to a whale when it must swim in the sea.
Seeing the whale, no one would ever suspect it had once been a wolf.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“My people had a saying about home, as they did about so many of the important things in life: a Varenian can never be lost at sea, because he calls the entire ocean home.”
― Mara Rutherford, Crown of Coral and Pearl