Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.
Glenda MillardTags: war remind good-times carousel
I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.
Glenda MillardTags: no-man-s-land
We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.
Glenda MillardTags: dark houses hearts no-lights raspberry-tarts
The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.
Glenda MillardTags: dance sad watch beautiful
... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.
Glenda MillardYou might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.
Glenda MillardTags: dream true hard-to-believe imagined
... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.
Glenda MillardTags: life love brave mother beautiful the-most-important-thing
... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.
'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.
Tags: moon darkness light die perfect born pure
The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...
Glenda MillardTags: road wheels hum liquorice lullabies
I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last chance for ever.
Glenda MillardTags: cobweb-hair last-chance moonskin-face pansy-eyes
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