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The Stove-Junker QUOTES

The Stove-Junker QUOTES

1 " People use each other as markers for what's real, so you can't be alone anymore. Solitude draws suspicions. "

― S.K. Kalsi , The Stove-Junker

2 " The evening's light, silvery, casts its dull brightness onto the trees--trees gelid in this blue light of winter. But whiteness dominates with the pines and evergreens steeped in vibrant grades of silver. I hear notes in the mist, like silvery chattering, coins in a pocket, the jangle of keys. "

― S.K. Kalsi , The Stove-Junker

3 " I would think of certain winter nights when he wedged himself between Nona and me in bed, a furtive warmth embedded in his skin already tinctured with virginal earth and milk and possibility, or how that peculiar scent common to all small children before the age of five--sunshine sweetened hair, a nascent woodsiness in him exuding youthful exuberance--gripped us, suspended us eighties in the sense that our hope, our very survival, depended on the fulfillment of this child's dreams. How I took those years I spent for granted, believing them unalterable? "

― S.K. Kalsi , The Stove-Junker