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“...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.”
“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”
“...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.”
“She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.”
“The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.”
“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shak...”
“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and a third. When he died suddenly, while working late at his office, every boy...”
