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“She was the only pretty thing that every boy among us believed could be his, at least ten minutes at a time.”
― Out of Darkness
― Out of Darkness
“So Naomi put the gun in the same category that held Henry’s Bible: things he owned but didn’t use anymore.”
― Out of Darkness
― Out of Darkness
“To touch her braid was to remember her mother. The code was simple: when her mother had a braid, she belonged to Naomi.”
― Out of Darkness
― Out of Darkness
“He couldn’t simper around these fools and still be what he was becoming for Naomi. If
he had to burn bridges to be that man, he would.”
― Out of Darkness
he had to burn bridges to be that man, he would.”
― Out of Darkness
“All kinds of forgetting were possible in the tree. Naomi could forget
the grime she scrubbed from the sinks, the slap of wet sheets against her
ankles as she flung them over the clothesline, the breakfasts and lunches
and dinners waiting to be made and eaten and cleaned up. She could forget the stares at school and Miranda’s icy words. Inside the tree, she could
forget the girl she saw Wash with at his house and the ones at Mason’s.
She could forget that Wash belonged to the twins first of all.”
― Out of Darkness
the grime she scrubbed from the sinks, the slap of wet sheets against her
ankles as she flung them over the clothesline, the breakfasts and lunches
and dinners waiting to be made and eaten and cleaned up. She could forget the stares at school and Miranda’s icy words. Inside the tree, she could
forget the girl she saw Wash with at his house and the ones at Mason’s.
She could forget that Wash belonged to the twins first of all.”
― Out of Darkness
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