On the Savage Side
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The first sin was believing we would never die. The second sin was believing we were alive in the first place.
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You’re half of the same rotten apple.
Samantha Boren
Charli?
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We even drew our mother and father. We gave them smiles because it was a drawing, and in drawings you don’t have to tell the truth.
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When I heard the chair’s legs scrape against the floor, I knew my mother had gotten up to hug Mamaw Milkweed. It was something she always did so she could reach into Mamaw’s fanny pack and take what money was up for grabs.
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There was little at the time that Daffy and me didn’t believe was made by a woman or out of her.
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All the roads here are not graveled in rock, girls, but with the woman’s scars, because only a woman’s scars are strong enough to bear something driving over them, again and again.”
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“A witch is not a pointy hat or a broom or warts. A witch is merely a woman who is punished for being wiser than a man. That’s why they burned her. They tried to burn away her power because a woman who says more than she’s supposed to say, and does more than she’s supposed to do, is a woman they’ll try to silence and destroy. But there are some things that not even fire can destroy. One of those things is the strength of a woman. Don’t you want to be a woman like that? A woman with power?”
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“Power is not only physical. It’s not some muscleman lifting all the weights. It’s much more than that. It’s being smart. It means you endure.”
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“Because in this world you must be smart and you must endure. Most importantly, you must be ready to be treated like a woman. If you are not ready for that, you’ll break wide open.”
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“You can’t give up because things get a little hard, or you’ll never get through.
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What are the most terrible things you can think of?” Mamaw Milkweed asked. Daffy turned to me and said, “The things Momma and Aunt Clover stick in their arms.”
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when the demons are the ones who you tell? We
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“Wasn’t the wind that blew her into the river,” I said. “It was the breath of a man.”
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got thirty-five dollars for it,” he said. “I got to keep the case. If I don’t open it, I can imagine the violin is still inside.” “Thirty-five dollars?” I asked. “For you to swim.”
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“The one who broke it must not have known,” I said. “Known what?” Daffy asked. “That a woman with a broken jaw can still speak.”
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I knew if we had waited for the perfect moment, we would either be dead, our obituaries written by the street, or we’d be old women with dirt on our feet, living in the back bedroom with our mother and the other ghosts.
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And yet as the flames started to recede, I opened my eyes and thought I could be.
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On his palm, he had the tattoo of a butterfly. “I got it a few years ago,” he said, seeing me stare. “Why’d you get it on your palm?” “I like knowing I can have something so fragile in my hand and not crush it to death.”
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“I was thinking Eagle.” “Eagle?” Indigo smiled. “Why that name?” “Because,” Thursday said, “eagles are protected from hunters and poachers. She has less of a chance ending up on the endangered list that way.”
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daughter is a woman lost at sea. A mother is the one who saves her. But if she’s not there, the daughter will always be lost.”