The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it.”
“We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”
“I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.”
“she settled her chin in the crook of my collarbone. Her breath poured into the space like tea into a cup.”
“When we heal our land, we are healed also.”
“Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?”
“Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.”
“And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of the dream, the bigger dream that held us all. Anything. Everything.”
“I felt content, maybe even a little more than that. I was alive and climbing a tree and a girl I was weak for was safe on the ground below. And I was doing something strong to keep her safe, to keep all of them safe. I felt old-timey, and something lush burst open in my chest.”
“When we finally convinced ourselves to move, to make the day real, the sky was a cerulean blue with a light gauze of striated clouds.”
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Book Keywords:
dreams, tradition, science-fiction, customs, first-nations, cultural, indigenous, hope, fiction, dystopian, indigenous-people, nature
