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That land has value to your family the way it is.”
“What I hear you saying is you want to log that mountain because it’s yours, and because you can. And my job here I think is to warn you about the sin of pride.”
If you can’t live by the laws the Lord God made for this world, they’ll go into effect regardless.”
“My name’s on the deed of that land too, Dad. My family’s house.”
“That land was bestowed on us for a purpose,” Hester said. “And I don’t think it was to end up lo...
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Haha - a good guy, that Bobby. Genuine.
Witnesses changed the stakes.
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Haha
Haha
My life for 40 years
Bobby’s flock was needy and his duties large.
As I said: my life for 40 years
Haha, they don’t behave - or even think - the way D. would want them to.
The old man’s hearing was shot. All those years of power tools and a disdain for ear protection.
Haha
“That was something today,” she said to Hester. “That meeting. You must be proud of Cub. I know I am.”
Yay!
Hester remained inscrutable, but that was Hester. The appearance of happiness to be avoided at all costs.
Haha
“You don’t know anything.” “Okay, I don’t,” Dellarobia said, chastened. “Tell me something, and then I will.”
Haha
pedestrian Baptists
a break in the Baptists
OMG
Haha
Is she stupid?
A bright-eyed girl from a dilapidated trailer on the back side of a mountain.
A man with a house and a farm.
What Dellarobia was not ready for, she realized then, was Hester’s legitimate claim on her sympathies.
Yes! Finally!
“He doesn’t, nor Bear. They can’t any of them know. And I can’t do a thing in this wide world but live with it.”
“I don’t even know what you’re telling me, Hester.
the dreadful swan planter, a remembrance of unkindnesses past.
flocked
“Nobody,” Dellarobia replied.
Climate
The icicle of Damocles.
Haha
uncomplicated sadness,
having their marriage
ancestral memories of Iceland.
Haha
the flocked forest,
Simile
It couldn’t even be called a freak storm. Probably there was no such thing, in a freak new world of weather.
What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked?
She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,
murderous to a mother who’d cradled feeble infant necks and sheltered soft fontanelles.
compelled by the near sensation of breath.
Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.
the colostrum was crucial.
She sobbed too, for nothing, it seemed.
It was all impermanent, the square white corners of house and home, everything. This one little life signified nothing in the long run; it would get eaten.
“It wasn’t all a waste,” she told him over and over, holding on. Some things they got right, she wa...
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And for all the rest they wept, a merged keening that...
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fantasies of flight where there w...
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Things look impossible when you’ve not done them.
