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1 " As the two figures navigated their way knee-deep in snow, the steel-gray crescent of the moon followed them silently from behind its hideout of threadbare clouds, thinly painted across the sky. "
― Ellie Midwood , The Lyon Affair (The Indigo Rebels #2)
2 " War is a strange thing,” Etienne continued, in what seemed to be musings which he had decided to pronounce out loud, into the stillness of the night. “It changes a man and even his way of thinking. "
3 " A shadow set across Father Yves’s face, settling deep into the lines creasing his brow and annihilating the kindness in his gray eyes, leaving them cold and dead. "
4 " When one was eighteen, one didn’t believe death was on the horizon. "
5 " Blanche was putting four more beer mugs in front of the uniform-clad patrons who frequented Monsieur Morin’s Bistro, invading the tight, smoke-filled space with their banter, when she felt a hand insolently sliding from the small of her back to her behind. Barely containing herself from slapping the sneering offender, who didn’t seem deterred in the slightest by the manner in which she straightened at once, almost spilling the beer on the grease-stained wooden table. Blanche willed herself to keep her anger at bay and forced a lopsided grin on her face instead "
6 " a relatively newly elected government (Elected? Forcefully installed, and quite illegally too, after Pétain and his administration dismissed the assembly "
7 " stubbed her cigarette on the brick outside the window and threw it on the ground. The street was littered as it was; what did one more cigarette butt matter? Her whole life was now one big garbage pile; she lived in it, she worked in it, "
8 " What was happening to her? She was becoming like her father right after he returned from the Great War, the righteous, honorable Monsieur Legrand who tried to teach her things that weren’t meant to be taught, as it appeared. One had to live through them to understand the true value of things, and Giselle hated all of the new revelations that came to her in this swamp of a street. "
9 " The circle of the moon spilled its liquid silver onto the streets "
10 " In his days in the seminary, he was taught to always deliver his sermons to the parish on topics not only relevant to recent events but, more importantly, to always speak of what touched his heart personally. "
11 " Not very priest-like from the Church’s point of view but Yves had decided a long time ago to live by God’s teachings, and not the ones set by the Vatican. God said to feed the needy, and so he would. "
