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The aunt was pregnant and it wasn't her husbands baby.
"Some man had commanded fer to lie with him and be his secret evil. I wonder whether he masked himself when he joined the raid on her family." Page 6 -
Mother finding out the aunt was pregnant.
"I remember looking at your aunt one day when she and I were dressing; I had not noticed before that she had such a protruding melon of a stomach." Page 3 -
Aunt had baby in pigsty
"Before the next soasmcould stop her, she ran to the pigsty, each step a rushing out into emptiness. She climbed over the fence and knelt in the dirt. It was good to have a fence enclosing her, a tribal person alone." Page 14 -
Villagers broke into the families house.
"The villagers broke in the front and back doors at the same time, even though we had not locked the doors against them. Their knives dripped with the blood of our animals. They smeared blood on the doors and walls." Page 4 -
Monkey Brain
"We'd have to face four- and five-day-old leaftovers until we ate it all." Pg. 92 -
The aunt
"In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born." Pg. 3 -
Moutains
"During the seventh year (I would be fourteen), the two old people led me blindfolded to the mountiansof the white tigers." Pg.24 -
Becoming a Woman
"I had thought that I had cut myself when jumping over my swords, one made of steel and the other carved out of a sigle block of jade." Pg. 31 -
School
""I studied far in advance," says my mother. "I studied when the breathing coming from the bes and coming through the wood walls was dee even." Pg. 64 -
Brave making Moon go get her husband back
"I'll hit him. I'll protect you. I'll hit him back. The two of us will knock him down and make him listen." Page 145 -
Moon has lunch with her husband
"The least you can do is invite us to lunch." Page 154 -
Bulliing
"Don't you dare tell anyone I've been bad to you. Talk. Please talk." Page 181
