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Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.

love, matters, risk

You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.

criminal, desires, idealism, mad-forbidden, oblivion

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

clouds, grandeur, sky, threat

Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

grass, shirtless, sun, thunderheards

If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

life, places, right, wrong

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

depravities, illusion, love

It is Halloween,” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?

halloween, witches

Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

dance, havoc, love, ruins

Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one’s whole life in irreversible conflagration.

conflagration, fire

Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appetites cunningly tricked out as reasonable choices?

appetites, madness, marauding