Silence

“Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.”

Woah. I read this and had to put the book down for a second. When I started the book Memory of Water, my first thought was that it was a bit morbid. Noria continuously talks about death and how water and death are connected. Granted, it’s true (drowning, duh!). But it’s a real downer.

Noria’s father brings her to a spring hidden in the fell and then tells her that it doesn’t exist. Either he is extremely selfish and wants to keep all the water to himself, or he is afraid that people will do to the spring what they did to the rest of the world’s supply of water: destroy it. So I can understand why he tells Noria to remember that it doesn’t exist.

But why does Noria think the promise she made to her father was going to possibly endanger her life? I’m assuming that’s what she meant when she relays that she didn’t know what kind of promise she was making.

I get the feeling this book is gonna be one wild ride.