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Hunger steals the memory. - [Hunger] They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. - [Belief] Eighty-some years previous, through a town that was to flourish and past a farm that would disappear, the river slid--all that happened began with that flow of water. The town on its banks was very new and its main street was a long curved road that followed the will of a muddy river full of brush, silt, and oxbows that threw the whole town off the strict clean grid laid out by railroad plat. - The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The grass was white with frost on the shadowed sides of the reservation hills and ditches, but the morning air was almost warm, sweetened by a southern wind. Father Damien's best hours were late at night and just after rising, when all he'd had to break his fast was a cup of hot water. He was old, very old, but alert until he had to eat. - The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (prologue) [Books (First Lines)]
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