“all this Beethoven and rain”

“He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.”

“In the morning she found pieces of a birdchopped and scattered by the fanblood sprayed onto the mosquito net,its body leaving paths on the wallslike red snails that drifted down in lumps.She could imagine the featherswhile she had sleptfalling around herlike slow rain.”

“Blood a necklace on me all my life.”

“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”

“The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.”

“All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”