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chapter 04 — Every day after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across the road and talk about when he would be a big ruler of things with her reaping the benefits. Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for the horizon. He spoke for change and chance. Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong.

chapter 03 — She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and build a new one by sun-up... She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches."

I'm so excited to reread this omg

"Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time." hhghrr