Cynthia Bond Quotes

#1. Ephram watched as Miss P went to give the girl a hug. Ruby bristled and inched back, shaming the older woman into converting her gesture into straightening Tabasco bottles on a nearby shelf.

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#2. Ephram broke through. "You kiss me, woman! Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. Don't blaspheme who we is.

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#3. Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth.

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#4. maybe devilment was catching. Maybe crazy was a cold you caught.

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#5. Lately, he'd felt like his bones were God's kindling. That God must be awfully cold to set so many fires.

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#6. Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

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#7. Monday morning broke through, rubbing Sunday out of its eyes.

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#8. Ephram took her hand, "But I'll tell you what. I'm most interested in the woman you have yet to be."O

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#9. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.

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#10. He wanted to tell her that he had seen a part of the night sky resting in her eyes and that he knew it because it lived in him as well. He wanted to tell her about the knot corded about his heart and how he needed her help to loose the binding.

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#11. Ruby put her arms around her, but because she could not hold air, the child walked inside of her body, curled there and settled into her womb.

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#12. She made it in that pocket of time before dawn, when the aging night gathered its dark skirts and paused in the stillness.

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#13. The food, though seasoned a little heavily with judgement, went down just fine.

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#14. If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.

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#15. John Imig, Damon O'Neil and Jason Parker of Swork Coffee, for the life-sustaining elixir, and for allowing me to rest, type and weep for hours into months into years.

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#16. Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.

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#17. You know boy, I coulda been your daddy, but the fella in line behind me had correct change.

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#18. The night leaned in as somehow Ruby found a way to accept that kiss and, in so doing, dipped her big toe into life.

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