Luse

“You don’t fool me, he says in a low voice.
Is that right?
Yea, he says. I see it in yer eyes. All you care about’s yer precious brother.
That aint true, I says.
If it’d been Emmi they took, he says, Emmi an not Lugh…would you of gone after her?
I take in a breath to say of course I would but the look on his face stops me. there ain’t no point in lyin when he already knows the truth.
He leaves go of me an steps back.
I thought so, he says. Yer sister’ll be safer with me than she could ever be with you. You jest ride along on yer high horse an leave her to me.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“Lugh shines like the sun.
That must of made it easy fer them to find him.
All they had to do was follow his light.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“I never knew that missin somebody could hurt, I says. But it does. Deep inside. Like it's in my bones. We ain't never bin apart till now. Never. I dunno how to be without him. It's like... I ain't nuthin.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road