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“Words are the one way we leave tracks in the world, Sol. Maybe one day you will write a book, like Olaus did, or Molly Thorn. And people will read it, like I’ve been reading to you. And they will know that you were here, and a little about what you were like.”

“What I wanted more than ravioli was for someone else to take the lead. Somebody with solo chops, like Lark or Robin Hood. With no such thoroughbred on hand it was only me, and a shaky protagonist I made — scared and starving, pushed by a whining insect outboard onto the blackening deep.”

"Sprawled on mossy ground or propped against a tree I slept and sometimes seemed to feel the deep-down bass line of the world. Maybe you know it. The song you don't hear holds you up."

“It’s taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can’t make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lives who could keep it half the time.”