The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.
The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately, what they heard or even what they knew. It is how they interpret the story that will make all the difference.
But they felt ancient and natural, like they were, just tonight and just here, alive in a time before Americanness. A time before any kind of ness.
Family will always kill you – some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.
But I was a fast girl, always spinning on my own axis, and I ain have no patience for Ronald who don’t know how to hold on tight.
It was like this when she was having one of her episodes. The episodes were a state where she wanted and hungered and that took many slights of magic to calm. The doctor said it was a nervousness brought on by the pregnancies and miscarriages. A woman’s wildness. But.