Quotes from Karen Connelly

Whatever he writes will mean You have not silenced me. Despite all your power, you are not all powerful. Men have often reduced his voice to gasps and weeping. They have crushed the power to speak from his body, from many bodies. But words written down outlive the vulnerability of the flesh. His songs will fly through the air like swallows. Recorded words can be passed along. In one form or another, they will be passed along. Movement is their essential nature.

Then, as if by magic, everything changed. Of course, it wasn't magic, was it? It was just Teza, talking. It was just a visit to a laundry.

Lying in his dirty palm is a pale green stone.