"But once, just once, to know how it would end, to know where to go, what to do. How different that would be from the bloody, straggling ends of the war he keeps fingering, hoping they’ll show him a way out into life."
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Published 29 Mar 2007, last updated 20 Nov 2007
A left-out bit from "Voiceless"...
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Published 29 Jul 2006
"It’s as if the earth’s on the verge of hurtling over its edge with her in its grasp."
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Published 25 Jul 2006
"‘The way things were’ was a season in itself."
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Published 17 Jun 2006
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The Department of Mysteries had a chamber for everything. Did it have a room for mysteries themselves? A proper place for all those things that were so hard to explain or understand, things without names or words to describe them? Things that lay between the big mysteries of Love and Death and Time, little things that could, like the pulse of a second hand on a clockface, could bear so irrevocably on the big mysteries themselves?"
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Published 16 May 2006
"She regards him for a moment longer with an inscrutable look in her eyes, a foggy dawn determined to keep the sun a secret."
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Published 16 Mar 2006
"One year of our lives can’t hurt, can it?" she whispers.
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Published 11 Dec 2005
"She will never forget this, never, her first taste of him, a bloodied kiss on the sands of a wailing sea."
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Published 5 Nov 2005
"But this time I can’t help you."
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Published 28 Aug 2005
"Nothing happened the way we thought it would, but some things stayed the same."
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Published 31 Jul 2005
“Because I felt it. While you were missing and ever since then, I’ve had this feeling inside my skin, like I can hear the blood flowing inside me. Professor Tiresias figured it out.”
Epilogue up.
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Published 11 Apr 2005, last updated 27 May 2005
"The thing is, with commas, you can never know. No matter how much you wonder, you won’t know until it’s over, either way--continuation or fullstop."
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Published 1 May 2005
"...As if being in love is an incomplete sentence unless it was with each other."
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Published 4 Apr 2005
"This is their nightly ritual, the day falling out around them, tangles smoothed out, knots eased through, until it’s just them."
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Published 29 Mar 2005