“What you have to understand,” she says, “is that things can thrive in unimaginable conditions. All they need is the right sort of skin.”
“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
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