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Best she could figure was he wanted to scrape off the lining of his stomach on a daily basis with the liquid equivalent of a sharpened spoon.
Considering a mule was half horse, half donkey, odd-looking, generally disrespected, and confused on the gender front, Nettie had a lot of fellow feeling for old Blue.
The world is filled with monsters hiding in human skins. Just like people, some are bad, and some are good. Many contain the seeds of both. Many change their alignment with the winds.
“Your first problem is that you’re a fool. Just because you’ve been told your entire life that you’re nothing does not mean you are nothing. The wolf doesn’t care what the sheep think.”
“I figure you’d better take me to the Rangers so I can get this destiny thing finished and get back to breaking horses.”
Give her some hope. A body needs hope, sometimes, more than it needs the truth.”
“Your heart is not a rock that stands unchanging. It’s like water. It flows, it moves, it allows neither boulders nor canyons to stand in its way. It hardens and softens and expands to fill new spaces. You are still becoming yourself. And you have a lot to learn.”
“So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.”
“A wise man doesn’t plan war. He spends every day of his life preparing for the war that he knows will find him.”
“Did you know a group of vultures is called a wake?
Pia Mupitsi was the absence of the wind, the sound of no sound, a feather left in an empty cradle, nothing like an apology.
“Don’t you see? You’re the one holding the noose.”
Eternity was a wake of vultures, a harem of harpies, a brigade of bragging bitch-buzzards carrying her through the night, flying her toward the gaping mouth of a cave at the top of a mountain that nothing on two legs could ever reach.
“There’s a reason animals live in groups and people live in tribes and cities. When we get off alone, we start to go a bit crazy. People need to be touched and talked to, they need to know somebody else in the world cares. You take that away, and you have a monster.
