Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
What do you mean--your family? he said. Joseph, you do not have a in this terrible place. You have a master. Do not confuse savages who happen to give you food with Joseph’s face hardened. They are m...
Girl! English, eh? What is your name? Indians stole you, eh? I’ll send news to your people.His excellent speech meant that he did a lot of trading with the English. It meant, Mercy prayed, that he lik...
Ruth stormed away.She hated the Indians and prayed constantly not to hate her fellow captives as well. They were becoming Indian lovers. Only the stupefied Eliza had avoided it--and that was because s...
Ruth lay down and inched forward until she could look over the edge of the cliff to see what had happened.The force of Otter’s fall had brought snow and rock down upon him. One hand stuck out, and par...
None of the captives possessed the freedom to choose anything or take care of anyone.It turned out that Eben Nims believed otherwise.Eben was looking at Sarah in the way every girl prays some boy will...
Mercy’s only hope for friendship was Nistenha’s cousin’s daughter, Snow Walker, who was a frequent visitor and pleasant enough. But Indians were less likely to talk for the sake of talk and Snow Walke...
Mercy was outdoors more than she had ever been.She had thought that after the horrifying journey of ice and snow, she would never want the outdoors again. But spring and summer were joy.You’re not joy...
Mercy herself was so hungry, she was faint. Tannhahorens would despise her for it. She tried to keep her feet from weaving and her tears from falling, but she could not.Tannhahorens took her hands and...
By summer, Kahnawake children had stopped wearing clothing.Mercy could not get over the sight of hundreds of naked children playing tag, or hide-and-seek, or competing in footraces. The boys--naked!--...
The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere.
Stop being picky! yelled Mandy. You’re down to twelve minutes and you still have to swipe your credit card!
She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of...
She had gradually changed her name. Jane was too dull. Last year, she'd added a y, becoming Jayne, which had more personality.
Perhaps nobody knows anybody..It was a terrifying thought: like the alone. That you could know people well, and know them again the following year, and then know them more...and yet remain strangers f...
Last time she had been here, the room had been pastel, romantic and soft. Now it was icily white. It was urban, out of a slick magazine, as if some cold, successful woman lived here with two possessio...
Jared never prayed, because the idea of a loving God seemed out of sync with the facts of the world.
It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.
He shrugged and sipped his root beer. It came in a bottle. He liked holding a bottle to his lips much more than a can. He was exhausted from worrying about everybody.
But I found my family.I found the right thing to do.I found the way home.