(voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.

“Anyone who has lost a love to death can tell you about that fall. You wake from…”

“Forsythia that I thought had been dozed into oblivion sprang up and misted the …”

“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, t…”

“I fell in love with Peter at that precise instant. I don't suppose many other w…”