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Selena’s lips twisted up. It’s almost like I’m not the center of the universe or something.
Watch your feet when you walk by the mechanic’s place, there’s a hen that will try to herd you. She was raised by a border collie
They wouldn’t have hurt you, mind, but it would’ve been an awkward night if they got in and all crowded into your bedroom.”
“Of course,” said Father Aguirre. “There have always been monsters. The ones in the desert are a bit more straightforward than the ones in men, that’s all.”
No, pretty sure this was all caused by a well-meaning white woman, and you know how much trouble we are.”
ha!!
Or maybe, like Selena herself, she had thought that her place was to give and give until there was nothing left of her at all.
“But you and I are both small creatures, are we not? So the kindnesses feel larger.”
In her head, she tried out saying, “Meep meep, motherfucker,”
hell yes!!
“Making friends,” he said, very deliberately, “is doing something.”
“She was very lonely, I think. And some people respond well to being loved so absolutely, above all other things.”
