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“it is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
“I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
“And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
“And it was easier to let him keep on touching me than ask him to stop, easier to let him inside than to push him away, easier than hearing him ask me, "Why not?" It was easier to keep quiet and take it than to give him an answer.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
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