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22. 'I could see that while it was important to always tell the truth, when you were telling a story, it was okay to change the facts to make the story more interesting.'
Ahh he sufrido todo el libro con el conflicto mental de la protagonista y con frases como esta: 'I didn’t like when my father beat my mother, but there were times like now when she deserved it.' Horrible!

20. The days and nights I spent in the well taught me three things: My father didn’t love me. My father would do whatever he wanted with no regard for my safety or feelings. My mother was not as indifferent toward me as I thought.

19. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will the white man realize he cannot eat money”
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”

18. The wolf looked back calmly, intelligently, like he knew we were there and didn’t care.
How the wolf was so trusting, shooting Mai’iigan would be no different from shooting my dog.
I knew how much he wanted that wolf’s skin. But so did the wolf.

17. I knew my mother was never going to be the kind of mother I desperately needed...

16. The significance of what I had accomplished was almost overwhelming. I was afraid, but fear didn’t stop me from doing what I wanted to do. This was the lesson my father wanted me to learn. The knowledge filled me with power.

15. There’s a stigma to being the offspring of a kidnapper, rapist, and murderer that’s hard to shake.

14. What one person must do another one can’t.
The scars my father left on my mother, of course, went much deeper.

13. Stephen is the only person on the face of the Earth who chose me. Who loves me not because he has to, but because he wants to. My gift from the universe for surviving my past.

12. I understand now that what my father did was wrong. Still, I don’t think my father wanted to hurt me. He only did what he believed he had to do to teach me a lesson. What I didn’t understand until much later was how my mother could watch the whole episode from across the table, as small and useless as the rabbit..., without lifting a finger to help me. It was a long time before I could forgive her for that