Kei Miller, Augustown

"To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab."

"And now everybody get the understanding that Gilzene did get. A man cannot rise on his own. Not even a powerful man like Alexander Bedward. Him did need us. Him did need Augustown. It was we who had to push him up into the sky. It was we who had to show our faith to the governor and everybody else."