“In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.”

“They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, they created- they found- their own path and together they had their own world and in their own world, they were the same. Everyone else outside of it- everyone else was over there. Away. And they together- they together were here. They were right here. They were the same.”

“The two spoons were stuck together. Not because they were sticky, but because they were stubborn and clingy and “in love.”

“A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.”

“The ring was there to say they were a team, a reminder that they were in this together, almost like a private joke only the two of them got.”

“That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.”