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“He’d no boots for they’d long been stolen and those first days he walked barefoot and his heart was filled with despair. More than filled. Despair was in him like a lodger. Like a parasite that had turned out his very being from its abode and taken up the shape of that space within him where it once had been.”

She don’t know no English, does she?

Hell no. How would she speak english?

Don’t be cussin in front of her.

What?

I said don’t be cussin in front of her.

You just now got done sayin she don’t speak no English.

That don’t make it not cussin.

“You do not know what things you set in motion. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.”