I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

“Grace," I said, my vision swirling now because of her blood smeared across my w…”

“Grace: Outside, deep in the woods, I heard a long keening wail, and then anothe…”

“How long?"His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."For ever?"Sam's lips smi…”

“Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.”