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"To be honest, if anyone is going to get Asin, it should be Ninaatig. It's just that you certainly do not know what you've lost until it's gone and Ninaatig still has the birds[...]This is so normal for Ninaatig that it is Ninaatig, and so they can't imagine a reality without it.

"Unlike Asin. Asin lives with the hole and is driven to fill it."

"Mindimooyenh believes this is the function of ceremony. Ceremony strengthens the prefrontal cortex — the part of the brain responsible for emotional regulation and empathy. Ceremony is not just one big dumping ground of sharing circle. It is not a performance. It is not even necessarily designed to make you feel better. It is exercise."

"Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors!
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills."

"Have you been listening at the door, Edgar?" asked the mistress, in a tone particularly calculated to provoke her husband, implying both carelessness and contempt of his irritation. Heathcliff, who had raised his eyes at the former speech, gave a sneering laugh at the latter; on purpose, it seemed, to draw Mr. Linton's attention to him.

im like hand-over-mouth agog. i dont even lnow what to say

I remember the master, before he fell into a doze, stroking her bonny hair—it pleased him rarely to see her gentle—and saying, "Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?" And she turned her face up to his, and laughed, and answered, "Why cannot you always be a good man, father?"

feeling a real kinship with the girl that threw herself on his car and then straightened up and walked away as if nothing happened