Nation Quotes

Scientists were nothing but people who asked silly questions. (4.23)

Once we were dolphins and Imo made us into men! [...] If that wasn't true, then there was just dark water and nothing was anything... (3.117)

The young man was what [Daphne's] grandmother would have called a savage, too. But he hadn't been a savage. [Daphne] had watched him bury all those people in the sea. (3.67)

They had all been waiting, for someone who was no longer a boy but had yet to become a man. (2.16)

Mau was good at reading important things. He could read the sea, the weather, the tracks of animals, tattoos, and the night sky. (2.65)

If you didn't know the way, you weren't a man. (1.68)

[Mau] didn't know how to make a ghost bag. That was a woman's task. (2.147)

"I could see you thinking. Not many people think, not really think." (2.114)

I am become like Locaha, measuring the contours of death. (2.23)