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“to kill a witch, carve a heart in a tree and hammer a nail in a little further each day for a week. * She fought me when I put on my boots and opened the front door. We both knew the black alder leaning sideways into the bedroom window. For six days I carved her heart in the bark and hammered my nail inside, then went to the outhouse and emptied my guts. The sicker I got, the less I saw of her and the happier Mr. Rishner was with me. He came home at night whistling, kissed my cheek when I met him at the door.”
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“I had the notion some other woman took up living there while I was away. I was trespassing on her property, resting my hand on her husband’s knee. She was what I was inside the walls, and if I opened the door she would be there waiting to become me. She pulled aside the curtain in the front window and I saw her: big scared eyes, thin hair yanked back from her forehead”
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“But we, when moved by deep feeling, evaporate.” —Rainer Maria Rilke”
― Shadows & Tall Trees 7
― Shadows & Tall Trees 7
“For some, hope is an annihilation; a greater loss than the loss from which it is born.”
― Shadows & Tall Trees 7
― Shadows & Tall Trees 7
