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It took me years to grow a backbone, and that is why people call me the Wicked Witch. I have learned to say no and say it often.”
Money isn’t everything. Well, when you had no money and then got some, it was everything. It made all the difference.
Joanna’s eyebrows scrunched. “An Indian?” “More like pretendian.
“Take my advice—worrying makes you suffer twice. And the things you usually anticipate going wrong are never the ones that do.
That sounded like something a man married for over a decade said to his wife when she made the unfortunate choice to cut her hair and give herself the “Karen,” all short and angled with the flat-ironed bangs.
“I feel sorry for you, Kyle. Even with your fancy education, your money, and your connections, no one genuinely likes you. Even though I haven’t graduated from community college—yet—when I finally get to where I am headed, it’s going to mean something to everyone around me. I will be something. You will just fade away, blending into the sea of mediocre men who have come before you.”
I love you, but you have an avoidance problem. Have you ever asked anyone to stop mentioning your mom and dad to you?”
To write us in the pages of a love story, where we have never been allowed to be—except as caricatures or stereotypes to help non-Natives along their journeys—is powerful.
