“There, beneath the half-undone leather wrist cuff, beneath the ripped sleeve of a muddy Embassy military jacket, beneath the bloodstained uniform shirt soaked with ocean water-

Four blue dots, forming a perfect square.

IN that second, the world of two people, of Ro and me, shatters into a world of three.

Now I understand what I was feeling.

Now I understand who this boy is. Or more to the point, what he is.

He’s an Icon Child, like Ro and me.

There are more of us.”

-Icons, Margaret Stohl

“Sometimes I repeat the names of my people, all the people who have ever lived in my Mission. I say the names and I think, I am them and they are me.

Chumash Rancheros Spaniards Californians Americans Grass.”

- Icons, Margaret Stohl

“Los Angeles, that’s what the Hole used to be called. First Los Angeles, then the City of Angels, then the Holy City, then the Hole. When i was little, that’s how I used to think of the House of Lords, as angels.”

-Icons, Margaret Stohl

“‘The Icon, at what used to be the Observatory. High time we did something’ about it.’

‘You’re wrong. We can’t do anything. The Icons can’t be destroyed. Nothing works or lives anywhere near it. No one could get close enough to touch it.’”

- Icons, Margaret Stohl

“I let the ocean settle me, as it always does. If I keep my eyes on the waves, our current problems are not too painful to bear. Almost.”

- Icons, Margaret Stohl

“Feelings are memories.

That’s what I’m thinking as I stand there in the MIssion chapel, the morning of my birthday. It’s what the Padre says. He also says that chapels turn regular people into philosophers.”

- Icons, Margaret Stohl

“Just because something comes from the sky doesn’t make it an angel”

-ICONS, Margaret Stohl

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