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I poured the drinks and emptied the tip jar. - CM

There are moments we return to, and always. Family is like water end. It has a memory of what is once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. -CM

He knitted his hands together.
"Or leave her."
The white of his knuckles.
"I can't do either," he said.
"And I can't do both."

Corrigan drove me through South Bronx under the flamed-up sky. The sunset was the color of muscle, pink and striated sky. -CM

Loving.

The man remained rigid, yet his mystery was mobile.-CM

last looked through more than one door. This is a hard story to tell. -JD

I need a proper coat. But there's always been a lot of things I need that I am never going to get. -LF

But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to dupicate anywhere else or otherwise. CM

everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to. Do you think the patience is infinite? I think we're probably almost there. I think the odds are on that we'll still be here to see him what his thumb and lean over and unscrew the sun. -CM

Thetr were cutthroat trout in the river but he'd lost all heart to kill things. One day he saw a mink loping humpbacked along a stretch of gravel. - CM

He bathed in the creek that ran beneath tje road.
An old concrete bridge. The rebar showing through the rails. He stood naked and shivering on the gravelbar downstream and toweled himself off. The water was cold and clear in the pool below the bridge. - CM

The trucks grew fewer. No wind. Silence. The little carpet colored vipers coiled out there in the dark. Your best of the pass into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. -CM

Has the room jams and the sound of voices fades you understand that the world, and all it will soon cease to be. You believe that it will begin again. You point to other lives. But their world was never yours.

As the room dims and the sound of couces fades you understand thst the world and all will cease to be. You believe that it will begin again. You point to other lives. But their world was never yours. -CM

Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with the flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators toward the dawn. He slept with them in the sand. They didnot disturb the passengers. -CM

The world was bounded by a diminjshing set of coordinates. - JD

This was a world bounded by diminishing set of coordinates. - JD

We believed in fresh starts. We believed in good luck. - JD

loving; deep, contemplative and a slow thriller. love the italics storyline so much. m

New people, I was told, did not understand the responsibility to kill rattlesnakes. -JD

There are two kinds of people: those who can live without wild things and those who cannot. - aldo leapold's almanac, JD

Rereading brilliant pasages in this book. I am still amazed at the wisdom and truth I find inside these pages. M

I never finished this one. Book of 12 short stories. Reading, "I sell my dreams."