3 Quotes Tagged: treaty

Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet.

We sold ourselves for love but now we are free
I’m so sorry for that ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me