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- I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up
- It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be…
- Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger.…
- Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can…
- There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that…
- And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
- Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
- I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from…
- We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're…
- Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
- There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.
- We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he…
- I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband…
- There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
- They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though…
- He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of…
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