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“Trying to steal Doña Josefa’s gold, Juan follows this generous curandera through the countryside.”

“That night we were so hungry that we stole people’s food while they slept. It was the only way to get through the night.”

“One day the Little House was surprised to see a horseless carriage coming down the winding country road...Pretty soon there were more of them on the road and fewer carriages pulled by horses.”

“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”

“She was boisterous with joy after the day’s fright, and had been shamming death in fun.”

“Tom’s most well now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it, and ain’t a-going to no more.”

“Oh, I wish to goodness I were twenty-one. It is awful to be at somebody else’s beck and call.”

“Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It’s about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.”

They were close to Jallands now, an old thatched farmhouse which, after centuries of sleep, had woken up to a new world, and had forthwith sprouted wings; wings, however, of so discreet a growth that they had not brought with them any obvious change of character, and Jallands even with a bathroom was still Jallands.

“A wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.”