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"There was a story that traveled around the islands about a woman named Mama Weeds. A swamp witch. But now Kiwi saw that there were witches everywhere in the world. Witches lining up for free grocery bags of battered tuna cans and half-rotted carrots at the downtown Loomis Army of Mercy. At the bus station, witches telling spells to walls. Only the luckiest ones got to live inside stories. The rest were homeless..."
— Apr 17, 2013 09:33AM
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"Money appeared to be the one species that couldn't take root in the swamp -- and this blight was a killer of dreams, the Chief said, more potent than the red cotton borer."
— Apr 16, 2013 09:27AM
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"Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults."
— Apr 15, 2013 11:02AM
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Something about their ease with one another and all the happy, feckless ugliness in that car made him think of sisters. They were singing along to the radio, acting much younger than their ages. It was clear that these girls didn't care who was watching them through the clear panes. Kiwi wondered if they would step out of the car and shrivel into individuals, grow self-conscious again.
— Apr 14, 2013 09:36PM
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"Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart. Our mom had become agitated as the movie credits rolled: There had never been a chance for them! What stupid women."
— Apr 11, 2013 10:51AM
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"Study up on Romeo. You can't forbid love to anybody. Forbidding is just stoking the flames. You can't boss love, kids."
— Apr 10, 2013 10:37AM
