Garden of Tortures
“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Prodigal Summer
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