1. ...with all that talk of science, last night, I cannot think of anything worse than spending all that time trying to understand the mechanics of life but not the beauty of it.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
2. She had the knowledge from her mother, old knowledge. So long as you carried it in your head they couldn't take it away, she used to say. Not like weapons, or food, or clothes.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton