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“When Bernadeta found Margarida dead on the ground with her hands clasped, her eyes and mouth open, she didn’t think she’d been left alone in the house, because she’d always been alone. And she didn’t see it, the terrible solitude like a slap across the face, until the stench left. Suddenly. Just as it had come. Sneaking off. On tiptoe. And one morning you could no longer smell it anywhere. ”

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“But not to apprehend that when someone has a bad death, a ghastly death, an execrable death so horrific that God can’t bear to watch, then that someone is left behind and wanders through this world doomed. Like a lost soul. Forsaken. Neglected, abandoned, cursed, and castigated. Fare thee well!”

“the incessant voice whipped her, I sculpted you and yet you have taken another master, so deafeningly that the woman could scarcely distinguish the words. Away, fiend, for I gave you ears and you listened to another. Margarida looked in terror at the horse’s ass and shook her head. I gave you a mouth and you conspired with another. She was tongue-tied but , I gave you eyes and you looked toward darkness.”

“thinking she would die from hunger. And thinking she would welcome that. Because then she wouldn’t have to see the face of that child planted by a sinful seed. And she and the baby, dead inside her, as if already buried, would decompose nicely into fertilizer. And from it would grow trees. Oaks, beeches, and almond trees, anything but a cherry tree.”

“She told herself that the Lord Our God in all His love made each and every one of the men who traveled with Francesc so he was never lonely, those men who loved him in the way men love one another, which is far better than the way they love women. ”

“Margarida sat by her side and prayed with increasing vehemence, because it is in the blackest heart of the night, in the dark hour just before the break of dawn, that the devil and his envoys camp at their leisure. ”

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