The evening had turned sweet and blue.

“My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. Whe…”

“I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then the…”

“People say there's the Angel of Life and the Angel of Death, but there's anothe…”

“He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. T…”