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I was a fool hanging hope on a weak man I thought would stand tall if we got married.
Sleep is gonna come. It always does, but so do rememberings. Sometimes they take me places I don’t wanna go. Sometimes they take me places I don’t wanna leave. I never know where I’m going when I climb in this featherbed.
“If God wanted flowers in a jar, He’d a planted em there.”
You know a bunch of crows is called a murder, don’t you?”
“I understand the relief your faith provides. You think it is the foundation for hope and comfort. The cause and effect you believe in are sin and reformation. Fear plays a big part in encouraging people to take the high road. I don’t believe faith or fear lifts people to a better life. The cause and effect I believe in are education and opportunity. Those actions and goals elicit positive change. A god monitoring my days seems naive at best and dangerous at worst.”
Even being four, I wondered who defended us girls. I was too shy back then to ask. Now I know—it’s nobody.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.
Who will keep sweet Sadie safe from harm’s way? Not the church, though Eli undoubtedly prays every day for Sadie and those like her. Not the mountain or valley laws, which turn blind eyes to this intimate crime. Not anyone who sees consequences of today but can find no easy recourse.
He don’t know he’s going down for the count of ten, and this time I win.
