# Quote — Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

> We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across. (p90)

- Author: [Cherie Dimaline](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cherie-dimaline.md)
- Book: [The Marrow Thieves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cherie-dimaline/the-marrow-thieves.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cherie-dimaline/the-marrow-thieves/we-go-to-the

## More from this book

> "Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it." (p152)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cherie-dimaline/the-marrow-thieves/sometimes-you-risk.md)

> She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. (p173)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cherie-dimaline/the-marrow-thieves/shed-collected-the.md)

> "...When we heal our land, we are healed also." (p193)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cherie-dimaline/the-marrow-thieves/when-we-heal.md)