"I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to …"

"Nothing new has ever happened to a son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has alread…"

"He warned me that trade would open the door to greed and greed was an inconsiderate guest; it would bring its evil re…"

"life should not be traded for gold (p87)"

"in those days, I fed my hopes of freedom in whichever way I could, without realizing that I was only hooking myself t…"

"Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches…"

"Somehow I had also convinced myself that my redemption could only come from some force outside of me-that if I were u…"

"I had been pushed further and further into a fate from which no escape or reprieve seemed possible. And so there came…"

"But, he tried to tell himself, maybe this was just a fleeting interest, maybe it would all go away."

"A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at t…"