Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Hesitation will get you killed.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.