José Mauro de Vasconcelos

My Sweet Orange Tree

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  • Ngọc Nguyễnhas quoted6 months ago
    if I wasn’t in the mood, I’d say, ‘You’re out of your mind, Luís. Just look at the storm coming!’
  • Ngọc Nguyễnhas quoted6 months ago
    Uncle Edmundo was separated from his wife and had five children. But he lived all on his own and walked so slowly … Maybe he walked slowly because he missed his children? And his children never came to visit him
  • Ngọc Nguyễnhas quoted6 months ago
    Father’s out of a job, isn’t he? It’s been six months since he had the fight with Mr Scottfield and they kicked him out. Did you know Lalá’s working at the factory now? And Mother’s going to work in the city, at the English Mill? Well there you go, silly.
  • Ngọc Nguyễnhas quoted6 months ago
    Until not long before that, no one had ever hit me. But then they heard things and started saying I was the devil, a demon, a sandy-haired sprite.
  • b1718818617has quoted3 years ago
    and the old black one was so tame that we could even scratch her head.
  • b1718818617has quoted3 years ago
    No baulking, ’cause you’re a big kid now.’
  • b1718818617has quoted3 years ago
    peg them all out
  • b1718818617has quoted3 years ago
    she’d wring out the clothes
  • b1718818617has quoted3 years ago
    With an apron around her waist, she’d spend hours and hours plunging her hands into the water, turning soap into lots of suds.
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