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inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.
Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can with them before they close forever,
her blood swarms.
eyelids slipping heavily over his eyes.
And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon
His handgun is black; it seems to draw all the light in the room toward it.
Again Werner is impressed with how numerous and tiny his teeth are.
A ruptured melon lolls in the drive like an amputated head.
The weather in this place: you can feel it between your fingers.
even in sleep, a tableau of friction.
There are cadets who have skin like butter and irises like sapphires and ultra-fine networks of blue veins laced across the backs of their hands.
The tree looks uninhabited and calm; then someone fires, and its crown shatters in all directions, a hundred birds exploding into flight in a half second,
Berlin! The very name like two sharp bells of glory.
this magnificent cheese that tastes like smoke has been stirred into butter.
Frederick pulls on pajamas made of jelly-green silk and folds his glasses on the nightstand and climbs barefoot into his brass childhood bed.
Who knew love could kill you?
Everywhere mussels click and sigh.
the same two pallid casualty assistance officers enter the refectory, and four hundred faces go ashen from the effort of not turning to watch.
She gives him a look that one trapped person gives another;
Heat has lodged itself up here.
using dark little bread rolls to sop the blood.
silence seals itself back over the forest.
condensing all his senses into one.
Two wet eyes and that third eye of the bullet hole never blinking.
Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.
Volkheimer turns his bleeding palms up as though to catch the air, to let it seep into his skin like rainwater.
the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist.
foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child.
