Eleanor Morse Quotes

#1. It seemed that white people were the ones who believed in divine justice. That was because long ago, they'd come with their guns and greed and taken what they wanted. They'd long since forgotten what they'd done, and now they thought the land had always been theirs.

Eleanor Morse

#2. We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know.

Eleanor Morse

#3. Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.

Eleanor Morse

#4. By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

Eleanor Morse

#5. The bitter heart eats its owner.

Eleanor Morse

#6. It's a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

Eleanor Morse

#7. The world does not wish to be saved. It carries us a short distance and drops us when it's done with us.

Eleanor Morse

#8. What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach.

Eleanor Morse