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Five Survive
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Maddy was standing in the headlights, chewing her thumb, glowing around the edges like she was lit from within. She did that when she was nervous. The thumb-chewing, not the glowing.
“I wanted to be buried. If I must depart this life, I thought, let me live on in the soil: let me feed the earthworms, nourish the roots of the trees, like my mother and her mother before her.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“I had been quiet in those moments. If I had hoped for a future with anyone, it was with her.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“The physician spoke with confidence. He was a man, after all. He had no reason to think he would not be believed.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.
No. It was not a word we ever used.”
― Weyward
No. It was not a word we ever used.”
― Weyward
“I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
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