““I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.”
— Chapter 12 (p. 220)
“This was a thing she’d not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal’s secret body just to eat it.”
— Section 2 (p. 104)
“She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!”
— Section 4 (p. 314)
“Lasirèn, pray you a quick death for Hopping John. Pray you no more of this life for him. Even though no gods answer black people’s prayers here in this place.”
— p. 8
“I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.”
— Chapter 1 (p. 40)
““Children,” I said to her. “For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?””
— Chapter 4 (p. 192)

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