Apr 24, 2023
ââIs it not beautiful?â I said of the world around us. 'Is it not terrible?â [he] countered. He gazed at me, and all at once I knew that it was a question and that he needed an answer. I took his hand and pulled him to me, and had him lie down beside me. As he had rescued me, I did the same for him. For one night, when we could still smell the blood on each other, when the night was black and all the world was invisible, we were not alone.â
â Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
