"Your strong Hands and wise head make up for the crippled leg."
"And one bent leg is of no importance when measured against your cleverness"
"Kira stood helplessly, her future at stake"
"Women shouting outrage at the prices, vendors shouting in reply. Babies cried, tykes fought, scavenger dogs growled and menaced each other."
"Me mum, she slapped at me when I touched it. Slapped my head around so horrid hard I thought my neck would crack"
"The fragile ancient cloth....told the history of the worlds...And here and there, faded pale, almost reduced to white, there had once been blue"
"The threads began to sing to her. Not a song of words or tones, but a pulsing, a quivering in her hands as if they had a life...It told her there was danger still. But it told her also she was to be saved."
" Shell probably go to the field...now she can't care for them or work.[Her kids] they'll be given away. You want one?"
"She has always known she would not marry her twisted leg made it an impossibility, she could never be a good wife, could never preform the many duties required."
"His mother, saw the tyke...seized him away, yanking at his arm and administering a sharp slap to his head."
"The bell goverend the peoples lives. It told them when to begin work and when to stop"
"Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free."
"You and I, were the ones who fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different"