David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War With The Mein Quotes

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.