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“she settled her chin in the crook of my collarbone. Her breath poured into the space like tea into a cup.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

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“I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

tags: customs, indigenous, tradition

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“We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

tags: cultural, dystopian, fiction, first-nations, indigenous-people, science-fiction

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