Wildlanders' Woman Quotes

“Is a fuckin’ miracle, ye know, creatin’ life inside your body. Is how we know women are the center of the Clan, the circle, all of it. They keeps it going. We men, we does things to, protects, provides, but our life stops with us. Only way we bring life beyond ourselves is if we has a woman who bears us a child. To give us that gift… is beyond words, how much we loves her for it. Grows a babe inside her, suffers so much to bring it into the world, nourishes it with her own body. Fuckin’ amazing.” Jodah shook his head, voice sharp with longing.”
― Jenycka Wolfe, Wildlanders' Woman

“Is exactly what it is. What we does in bed, it’s wonderful and I loves it, but it’s a small part of what being Clan is. We are so much more than fuckin’. Ava, I’se spent damn near every day with Blaise for the past twenty years. Maybe more. Ye knows how many times we’ve had sex?”
Ava was not sure if she wanted to know the answer, but her scarred mate kept speaking.
“Not a one. Not even when we was boys, and everyone tries everything. We never touches each other, because I knows what’s with us is more important than our cocks and where we stick ‘em. I’se never fucked any of me Clanmates, yet they is everything in me life. I lives for them, I dies for them. And ye. One time I was whipped was when I told Daven I wished we hadn’t Clanned him. We don’t normally get the whip for words, but that was fuckin’ cruel of me, and I deserves what I got there. And he still came and stood there and watched, and when it was over he helped carry me home and bind up me wounds.”
Vaguely, Ava remembered him telling her something about that before, but the gritty reality had not sunk in. “But this is different,” she begged. “I’m not Daven. This is about my shame, and I don’t want you to see it.”
“But see it we will. And we will still love ye and we will still carry ye home and we will bind your wounds and carry ye to the privy and do whatever the fuck we need to for ye until you’re well again. And we’ll do our best to make sure ye don’t head down such a path again, but if ye does, we’ll turn ye round and bring ye back. And if ye heads down that path ten more times we goes after ye ten more times and we never leaves ye alone because that is Clan and that is who we are.”
― Jenycka Wolfe, Wildlanders' Woman

“Aye. Is why we’se covered our heads… sacred ground we’se on.”
Ava’s chest tightened again. She stood upon the ashes of generations of Wildlanders, the men and women who had built this community and loved one another and sacrificed themselves to keep people safe from the Dark. She remembered a few nights back, when she’d held Jodah as he’d wept. He had said she belonged here, too, but how could she? She’d never had such courage or strength as these Wildlanders possessed. All along, she’d thought herself above them, when, in fact, she now knew, she was so far below she’d never measure up.”
― Jenycka Wolfe, Wildlanders' Woman

“No shame,” he said firmly. “I don’t knows why ye feel ye must be shamed for it.”
Tears sprang unbidden to Ava’s eyes, and she blinked them away. “I… it’s not natural.”
“Not natural? Ava, men been putting their cocks in arses for as long as there’ve been cocks and arses. What’s not natural about it?”
― Jenycka Wolfe, Wildlanders' Woman