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“‘I’ll be nineteen in July,’ said Ellwood, after a moment. ‘Older than Gaunt ever was. All my life I’ve been younger than him. Isn’t that funny?’l

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“And it was a magical thing, to love someone so much; it was a feeling so strange and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”

“Maitland paused, thinking. Gaunt could see him remembering the scandal.
‘Awfully strong, wasn’t he?’ Asked Maitland, finally.
It was a kindness
Gaunt nodded.’very’”

“You’ll write more poems. They are not lost. You are the poetry.”

“He knew the lines Ellwood had quoted. They were from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20. Ellwood had written them in pencil on the wall above Gaunt’s bed, and Gaunt had hoped they meant something.”