Something went down my throat without
my permission."
Shit.
Fear wrapped around my heart like barbed
wire. "What went down your throat, Carrington?"
Her face crumpled and turned red. "My lucky penny," she said, and began to cry.
- Lisa Kleypas
Small, red, and upright he waited,
gripping his new bookbag tight
in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,
while the first snows of winter
floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced
all trace of the world.
- Anne Carson
my permission."
Shit.
Fear wrapped around my heart like barbed
wire. "What went down your throat, Carrington?"
Her face crumpled and turned red. "My lucky penny," she said, and began to cry.
- Lisa Kleypas
Small, red, and upright he waited,
gripping his new bookbag tight
in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,
while the first snows of winter
floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced
all trace of the world.
- Anne Carson
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