• First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

    Catherynne M. Valente: First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.47, Macmillan