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“…and I smiled, and she smiled, and I came home and hugged my mom, and she looked at me with a smile and asked if anything special happened at school today, as if she could sense a new energy in my hug, as if she suspected that I had met someone who liked me for who I was.”

“It went like this, loving John Macleod. You did it against all your reason, against all your better judgement, and in that exact moment he starved the embers into submission, he had the skill to blow on them gently and ignite them again.”

“Her eyes were bright and quick and full of mischief, and her mouth was lined with fine wrinkles from disapproval and smoking and laughing - everything in abundance.”

“I hope you understand why I had to strike you."
"I confess it stung, Punake said. "Especially by your hand."
"Don't poets remind us that words hurt worse than strikes?"
"I see you turn to metaphorical speech,” Punake said, “when the pain is
mine."

“And, son, you must remember that every man is plural inside. Your uncle is more than his worst attributes. He was once a thoughtful young man like yourself. That part still resides in him."

‘"Depends on who you're dancing for. A girl could dance for big-bellied men. She could dance for the audience in her head, the one she imagines is judging her. Better, she could dance for herself. Or she could dance for all the women who came before her." Here, the Tamah's tone lightened with possibility. "What if she danced for the ones to come?"’

“Somehow it had become night, and a fire had been lit. You know how a fire can make your world feel intimate, how there's nothing beyond the realm of its curtailed light, how inside this glow is everyone you cared about, their faces warm and alive, their gazes collected inward, focused on each other, so that a powerful sense of togetherness is achieved? I nodded.”

“He applied a jellyfish to an adversary that first time simply to say he'd personally exerted himself in this matter. Thus a symbol came to speak louder than a word, and 'Aho learned that even more powerful than a name said in fear was a name people were afraid to say.”

“So blind we humans are—so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have, as Artie did with Rhonda Lazarre that day. But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another's selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see.”

“"Let me know when I cross the line."
"There are no lines," he said. "You and I reside on the same side of the line."

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“Café Luxembourg was a twenty-minute walk but we flew there. All the crossing lights lit in our favor, all the tourists, walking three abreast, arms linked, caught sight of something in a store window that intrigued them and stepped aside.”