“You’d wait in the orchard for hoursto watch a deerbreak from the shadows.You said it was like lifting a celloout of its black case.”
“Watching Castro, whose tiny hands looked like marshmallows, hoist the ball from his waist and through the hoop seemed like the human equivalent of an ant lifting fifty times its body weight.”
“I am carried in my shadowlike a violinin its black case”
“He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.”
“Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.”
“The light lulls you into a false sense of security. But if the dark should come suddenly and silently, you’d stand out like black on night.”