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While the rest of your race goes the way of the dodo bird, you’ll be preserved and glorified ...
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“But of course, you’d rather converse with the hired help,”
but I suppose one bottom-dweller recognizes another.”
como un perro ahoga’o,”
atrevimiento
“No pares,”
Llévame, Río,
I am out of time and out of money to spend on a tenement rat who caters to a merman’s whims
“Do exactly as I say, my love,” I breathed.
Sonia put a hand on Morgan’s shoulder.
He glanced down at it with restrained derision.
You became a traitor and he still hates you anyway
He produced a comb from his pocket, spit on it, and ran it through his rumpled hair.
Ewwww
“And Sonia, try for pity’s sake. You look ridiculous in that frock.”
Benigno is betrayed by the woman who stole his kiss.
“You get nightmares from the Galveston Flood show,” Vera commented,
Why is she so damned bitter all the time?
“He’s green,” Emmett fired back.
don’t see why Benny doesn’t just share what he knows and let the professionals handle it.”
Why Morgan had balanced the success of his criminal scheming on her shoulders—and
and why I wasn’t just some guy she was sweet on.
choices are for white men with money,
“I’m choosing us. I’m just trying to be smart about this,”
“By the time you finish being smart, I will be dead.”
“Miss Kutzler hasn’t told you?”
“She telephoned last night,” Morgan continued.
“Helped me realize it might look a bit odd for our newest member to debut as a merman tamer.
“Couldn’t you try something less painful than a whistle?”
“The pain is the point.”
“he’s not human. No matter what you think you feel, it ain’t real.”
love and hate—they got something in common.
They put blinders on you, so’s you can’t see nothing but whatever it tells you to see.
“Confía en mí,”
“Matsya!” Timmy’s squeal made both Río and me jolt.
“Fíjate,”
Por los siglos de los siglos.
“Tell me the truth, you greasy spic!”
“Never again will anyone regard Morgan’s Menagerie of Oddities as some common stick and rag show,”
laughing and bochinchando in each other’s ears.
“Sea la madre,”
“‘May the devil make a ladder of your backbone while he picks apples in Hell’s garden.’
The money box I’d brought in earlier was gone.
Cómo te sientes, querido?”
“D-débil . .
“Por favor, no hables así—”
Tar is flammable.
IT IS???
“Dónde está mi milagrito?”
Grito de Lares
Sonia shrieked, yanking against Morgan’s grip before he pulled her face up to his and spat into it.
OH MY GOD
That you’re anything more than a worthless blight on the populace best left in a gutter to lick rats?”
soy boricua, pa’ que lo sepas.
That I can’t get rid of you just like I got rid of old Jack?”
WHAT????
