I think I’d rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to.” He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. “I’m not strong enough to do that.
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You have done well, Katie,” Frau Gerlach said. “You would make a fine midwife someday, if you ever wished to learn.”
I cast my eyes down, exhausted and shy and afraid and proud all at once. “All I have managed so far is to be a midwife to the puppies.”
She reached out to pat my cheek with a bloody hand. “God smiles on those who quietly do his dirty work, my girl.
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I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first.
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There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.
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I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me . . . just like everyone else.
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For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy.
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God smiles on those who quietly do his dirty work, my girl.
Laura BickleI wasn't threatened by fantasy.
Laura BickleI was afraid to be Outside alone, without Elijah. But, no matter what, I would have to get used to his absence. I would have to prove to him and to myself that I could.
Laura BickleMaybe now that Elijah was feeling well enough to be interfering in my business, he'd also be well enough to look after his own chores.
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