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“And then, very slowly, as he walked, he tilted his head back in the rain, just for a few moments, and opened his mouth…”

I wonder what the orange salamander on his badge represents

“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

“They walked the rest of the way in silence, her thoughtful, his a kind of clenching and uncomfortable silence in which he shot her accusing glances.”

“He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.”