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There is no remedy for love but to love more. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Haylin
Butter melting in a dish meant someone nearby was in love,
She insisted that her children wear blue for protection and carry packets of lavender in their pockets, though Franny always threw the packets away the minute she was out of her mother’s sight.
when anyone could tell having children had been a trial for her.
A token payment was fine in exchange for horseradish and cayenne for coughs, dill seeds to disperse hiccoughs, Fever Tea to nip flu in the bud, or Frustration Tea to soothe sleepless nights for
black tourmaline will eliminate jealousy.
out of mugwort, thyme, yarrow, and rosemary. He didn’t need Jet’s empathy
This cannot harm you on this day. When you walk, you walk away. When you return, all of your enemies will burn.
A glass breaking on its own portended death. “I’m telling
her favorite red lipstick and Maybelline mascara, for she never went without her makeup and Franny was not about
were direct descendants of the man who was the father of Maria Owens’s daughter.
The best way to do this is to be who you are, every part of you, the good and the bad, the sorrowful and the joyous. You can never run away. There is nowhere to run to. I think your mother knew that in the end, and that is why she came back here to be buried.
“What’s the point?” she would say when Franny suggested they go for a walk. Jet’s hair was so tangled a brush would no longer go through it. She didn’t bathe and ate only crackers and ginger ale. She slept with the edition of Emily Dickinson that Levi had given her. Inside he had written Forever—is composed of—Nows.
A remedy such as this can only last so long.
Frustration Tea, a combination of chamomile, hyssop, raspberry leaf, and rosemary, which Jet brewed for her sister in the mornings so that the day would go smoothly. Aunt
We have to do this like living people. Otherwise I wouldn’t feel right.”
They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened. She insisted he get dressed and go back to work. He did so, although he seemed reluctant to go.
Do no harm, but that was not the world he was drawn to. Hexes, curses, conjuring for causing spiritual sickness, such practices could be addictive, especially when customers were willing to pay high prices for them. He set up shop
familiar, his double and alter ego, a creature of a different genus that had the same shared spirit.
the man he would fall in love with.
He had an easy manner, but was direct and comfortable with himself.
included chestnuts and oysters sure to inflame the erotic center of anyone who partook of the meal. Vincent
crow in the yard. “Isn’t that Lewis?”
Edward Eager,
You can make the best of it or you can let it make the best of you.
Life is a mess, that’s what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.
She didn’t stop in town, she didn’t wait for a bus. Instead, she found her way to Magnolia Street.
“Once you forget a piece of your past, you forget it all. That’s not what you want, dear.”
“Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality,”
orange peel, black tea, mint, and rosemary. Riding through the lush New England
She didn’t understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.”
In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much—how little—is Within our
Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes.
want Regina to be with you.”
the air tinged with salt, the climbing roses
Alan Grant had wine opened on the table, and took a whiskey for himself.
serve. He needs a passport and a plane ticket.” “Pardon me?” Franny said. “He’s in a hospital. He doesn’t have a passport.”
“Step one. Get the hell out. But just know this. You can’t contact any of us. You have to make a clean break, otherwise we can be implicated and charged with abetting a federal offense.”
but your presence is quite evident.”
Django Reinhardt
curse. It is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved. In this, we are like everyone else.
Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they’d be thought of as difficult.
“Don’t try, do.”
down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you
Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.
to plant rosemary and lavender by the back door, where it had grown
the way a lover might speak of his beloved.
noodles and apple tart for dessert, or beans and toast and soup.
“We were who we were. No more, no less.” “He told me we could depend
