The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.