“The tree seemed very sad to be involved in such a thing and it hung its dark head over them.”
“and the sad notes floated out to thepatio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly”
“It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical”
“Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.”
“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”
“the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened,”