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The Timeless Love Collection: A Time to Dance and A Time to Embrace

This collection brings together two short stories, 'A Time to Dance' and 'A Time to Embrace', each depicting love in unique historical and cultural contexts. more

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Karen Kingsbury
Karen Kingsbury

Karen Kingsbury, born on June 8, 1963, is a renowned American novelist. Her works focus on themes of family, love, and faith, and have gained a large following among readers. Kingsbury's writing spans various genres, including romance, family, and religious novels, and she has a vast readership worldwide. more

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“Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.”

“...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.”

“And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.”