“I’m not a murderer….I’m just a slut, and you can’t be acquitted of that.”
“I’m not a murderer….I’m just a slut, and you can’t be acquitted of that.”
"We're in no position to let the state question our loyalties. Don't you understand that? If you cooperate, it makes a difference."
“Before I got married I believed love could do anything. I learned soon enough that it couldn’t bear the weight of four years without children.
“What would they think of her now, her old lefty student friends, coming back as a fertility tourist? Was she now the colonial memsahib? The benevolent bringer of bounty or the ruthless trader, smiling her way back home?”
“The underside piece of skull was colored blood, its flesh still holding onto strands of graying hair.”
“It was known that the two women shared hedge and hatred and they pruned both with a vim that belied their ages.”