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an unintelligent woman knew that everyone else was smarter than she was and consequently mistrusted people. A smart woman who mistook herself for a genius was far easier game.
The moon was a clipped fingernail adrift in a field of cotton, illuminating the rancher and the porch that he knelt upon with blue light.
Words are so pretty
Also, the Appanuqi traveled with grotesques for entertainment—these were Mexicans and other types of Indians and white people that they had reshaped with doctoring and stoning and torture.
The toddler told us that they were saying “Eight white men,” and some were saying “Breakfast rides in.” The Appanuqi were also cannibals.
“Your dead butterflies might disagree with that. They might tell you that you kill them to take back beautiful little pieces from the Lord who robbed you of your husband. Colorful pieces of revenge.”
“Don’t talk to me like I’m a child.” “I’m not. I like children.”
