Season Two

xi.

I don’t care, he said. His gray eyes were so big and young. Go on loving him, he said. Just stay here with me.

xii.

I will stab them in their black hearts, I said.

xiii.

Samuel told me later that it was recommended to have the babies delivered in a different spot than they were created. Then one isn’t tied to the other, he said. I was pretty sure Margaux would remember what got her in that situation, though.

xiv.

I was learning there was a lot of reasons men liked other men, and only some of it was how Peter liked Greeves.

xv.

It was my birthday and I was all alone and cold and I ain’t even had one good present, and now I was annulled from my husband and the fellow that was supposed to fancy me didn’t listen to a word I said and was off jawing about opium.

xvi.

I hissed, You couldn’t hit a house if it got a target on it! How you got to be a knowed gunsman is past me.

xvii.

We studied each other. Our breath was making clouds between us. I’m glad to know you, I said finally. You always been worth the trouble.

xviii.

If I got to tell you something, he said, then I ain’t showing you proper.

xix.

He weren’t being romantic when he said it, I answered. He yelled it, mostly.

xx.

No, I lied. I don’t think he was in any pain at all.