Sarah Connell’s Reviews > The Buffalo Hunter Hunter > Status Update

“"How is your heart, Three-Persons?" he asked then, leaning forward to look into and through the windows of my eyes, into my very soul, a drop of blood yet dripping down his chin, from the corner of his mouth.
"It is weak, Good Stab, it is weak, but it is willing." Then I said it, as I must: "I listen."”

“Scratching across its black eyes, I knew, were the stars that fell across the smoke-hole of my mother's birthing lodge, and I cried again, tilting my head back to open my throat wider to the night, to let it all in, and I told Feather Woman that that magic turnip she was looking for to get back to her world, here was its top, right in my throat, she could just grab on and pull and pull, unwind me into the stars”

“After the tragedy of last week's loaf of German bread having disappeared so quickly but lingered so long in memory, I am…limiting myself to one middling thick slice after lunch and one after dinner, and, so far, only a single thick slice betwixt lunch and dinner, as a crutch to get from one to the other.
Self-denial is fine and well when public approbation looms, but in the absence... It's a very good cake”

“You can’t look around every time you think you’re not alone otherwise you may never stop”

Not what i was expecting.