And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
Jennifer EganWhat he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
Jennifer EganIf you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
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