Superstitions Infanticide Quotes

“A midwife once told Erszébet of the üszögös gyermek, the stunted child, a premature fetus born alive, a scurrying spectral thing with a rat's feet and ears.Unless the stunted child is immediately destroyed, it will return to its mother's womb. It is something monstrous, grown in secret.”
― Jody Shields, The Fig Eater

“It's up to the owner of a blanket to sleep on the blanket or to sleep in the blanket.”
― Kudakwashe Muzira, My Two Selves and I