In some ways he’d fulfilled Juna’s request. He’d watched over David. Sort of. - P270
Like fiery orange jewels, embers from the fire floated through the air and landed on the silky stalks around them. The touch of the embers set stalks aflame. - P275
Much of the cornfields had become a graveyard of scorched smoking stalks. Plumes of smoke billowed into the air and hung like soup fog over Freewater. - P279
Juna would never have set that fire. - P280
I wish it had taken me, - P280
Freewater let out a weak swamp cry that joined the puffs of smoke swirling into the air. - P283
Be invisible at Southerland. Get my wedding clothes from my cabin in the quarters. Sneak up to Southerland house. Keep clear of the dinner tent. Find Mama and Anna in the kitchen. Tell them to run with me. Get back to the swamp. - P291
I’d only been there a short while, but it felt like a place to be missed. Again, as I went up the tree, I knew that for better or worse, things would never be the same again. - P294
The moment Ferdinand took the knife and the moment he ran free as his own person were so intertwined, the knife itself became part of his identity—the symbol of who he was and his freedom. - P300
Ada thought she could fly, Juna and Sanzi knew nothing about anything ahead of them, Billy was afraid of his own shadow, and Homer, well Homer’s map might not be enough. This group needed some ways to survive. - P306
NORA HAD SPENT THE BETTER PART OF THE night working through a plan. That morning, she would put it in motion. - P309
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