“You did mean it,” I say, my jaw clenched. “Or else you’re a liar. What’s worse, a liar or a monster?”
“I sat among them, enraptured by their stories, realizing for the first time that every one of us was a link stretching back, mother to daughter to mother, in an unbroken chain from the center of time, connected by milk and blood.”
― Milk Blood Heat
― Milk Blood Heat
“At night I observe Venus, closely following the transitions of this beautiful Damsel. I prefer her as the Evening Star, when she appears as if out of nowhere, as if by magic, and goes down behind the Sun. A spark of eternal light. It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“It dawns on Margot that, old as she is, it’s her mother’s first time on this earth, too.”
― Milk Blood Heat
― Milk Blood Heat
“Billie wanted to ask if motherhood was always that way- waiting for rest to find you, for parts of yourself to come back together.”
― Milk Blood Heat
― Milk Blood Heat
“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal, aren’t they?”
― The Only Good Indians
― The Only Good Indians
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