his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.

Kim Edwards


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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.

Kim Edwards

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His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

Kim Edwards

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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Kim Edwards

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You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Kim Edwards

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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Kim Edwards

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That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

Kim Edwards

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She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

Kim Edwards

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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

Kim Edwards

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You hold me at arm's length.

Kim Edwards

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