I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy. Is that right?
“Having a mother helps you believe that everybody wants to hear every little thing you think. Having a mother helps you speak without thinking. It allows you to trust in your most awful self, to yell and scream and cry, knowing that your mother will still love you by the end of it.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“I am in awe of her fire. Even if I'm the one she sets on fire.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don't ghosts just want to be remembered?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“How much strength does it take to hurt a little girl? How much strength does it take for the girl to get over it? Which one of them do you think is stronger?”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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