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Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
Luala Luala, the people above the Gangatom, have man who live with man like a wife, and woman who live with woman like a husband, and man and woman with no man or woman, who live as they choose, and in all these things there is no strangeness,” he said.
“I like his chest on my chest, his lips on my neck, looking at him as he enjoys me.
She laughed. “With so much leaving your front hole, no wonder you wish for something to enter the back.”
Only those who have not fought in war fail to see they were both dark. Alas, a mercenary without a war is a mercenary without work.”
“About me being the boy-fucker. Most time is the boys who fuck me.
We don’t own truth. Truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it, or kill it, or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, That there is a true thing.
“This story was neither good nor short.”
“It is only about the boy. You so fool you don’t see? It was only for the boy.” “I have a feeling, witch, it was only for you. You keep saying we were useless when use is exactly what you put us to. And the girl, poor Venin, you rid of her own body because Jakwu, or whatever his name is, was of greater use. This whole failure is on you,” Mossi said.
I go sick from the company of people, and yet I am so very lonely.
Dark came on me in the day. Wanting to kill, wanting to die, in your head they are the same colour, and the door to one leads to the other.
He was the first man I could say I loved, though he was not the first man I would say it to.
we did nothing but try to find a boy, for a reason that turned false, for people who turned false.
I know you’ve heard her testimony. So, what does mighty Sogolon say? Does she say, Do not trust one word coming from Tracker’s mouth? Not about the boy, not about the search, not about Kongor, not about Dolingo, not about who died and who was saved, not about the ten and nine doors, not about his so-called friend, the Leopard, or his so-called lover from the East, called Mossi, and was that even his name, and were they even lovers? Or his precious mingi children that he did not spawn? Did she say, Trust no word coming from the lips of that Wolf Eye? Tell me.
