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Of course, getting what you wanted never turned out the way you’d thought it would.
and kisses are a better fate than wisdom. —e. e. cummings, “since feeling is first”
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. Without the operation, human beings always become Rusties.”
Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
like kittens in a pile.
being born into a culture that assumed women were servants didn’t make it okay to go along with the plan.
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshipping a bunch of bogus gods.
“Pretty? Think again.” She smiled. “I’m Tally Youngblood. My mind is very ugly. And I’m taking your car.”
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
Even then, her mind had started to change, realizing that nature didn’t need an operation to make it beautiful, it just was.
Maybe she’d always been bubbly, somewhere inside. It only took loving someone—or being in the wild, or maybe just a plunge into freezing water—to bring it out.
