61 Quotes by Moira Young

Saba! I’m afeared! cries Emmi. If you are, you ain’t no sister of mine! I shout. Come at me agin! I ain’t afeared of nuthin! She yells. That’s more like it.

I ain’t never seen a creature like that before, she says. He’s so smart, he’s- More, like a person than a bird? I says. Yeah, she says. That’s it. Whatever you do, I says, don’t tell him that. I’ll never hear the end of it.

Move fast, travel light, an never tell ’em your real name.

I close my eyes. My bones sob. Throb. I’m so weary with tryin to hold myself together. Tryin to hold back the darkness.

Jack nudges our pile of clothes with his foot. Grins. Well, ain’t this an innerestin sitchation? he says. Two girls naked in the water an me with all their clothes.

Lugh shines like the sun. That must of made it easy fer them to find him. All they had to do was follow his light.

Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I’ll cut you in fer half the business here.

Life ain’t black an white. People ain’t neether. Family, friends, lovers. It’s all a lot more complicated. The longer I live, the more I see, the less I know fer sure. Especially when it comes to matters of the heart. So dry yer tears. Whoever he is, he won’t be cryin over you. Men never do. That’s the one thing I do know fer sure. Now, muck up them boots a bit.

It’s dangerous to let your enemy see weakness. Weakness can git you killed.