“Her mind raced through the dark, throwing open doors, knocking over cabinets, searching for anything it ever remembered seeing. Then the lightning flashed again. Carolina captured it before it even struck land, a jagged scar of silver light suspended over… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“Claire had the same sensation she got when she heard people rattle off travelers' rumors about a place she had actually been: the realization… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them.” — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“On the day Contessa Carolina Fantoni was married, only one other living person knew that she was going blind, and he was not her… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“Her mind raced through the dark, throwing open doors, knocking over cabinets, searching for anything it ever remembered seeing. Then the lightning flashed again.… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“Her mother could sail impervious through reversals and snubs that would have sunk another woman. But she was defenseless against her own thoughts” — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image