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Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be.Paul Russell
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There’s always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night’s sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing.Paul Russell
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It is Halloween, ” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?Paul Russell
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You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.Paul Russell
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That’s the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can’t live that way. The world’s too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them.Paul Russell