The InvisibleBridge

That winter in Transylvania he’d heard wolves howling at night, and had imagined their yellow teeth and silvered fur. There had been times when he’d felt so desperate he’d wanted to give himself up to them.

Paris-trained architect-engineer Andras Lévi has designed an invisible bridge. The materials are remarkably lightweight and it can be constructed in almost no time. It is undetectable by enemy forces.

That was the true death of the tree, Andras thought, the instant it ceased to be an upward-reaching thing, the moment it became what they were making it: timber.

one of the central truths of his life: that in any moment of happiness there was a reminder of bitterness or tragedy,

Jealous men will always try to take you down,” Vago said. “It’s the way of humankind.”

Unfaithful,” he said. “When?”

“Always. Whenever she’ll see me.

If fire dwells secretly in snow, how can I escape burning?

It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return.

Here’s what I know of the heart: It’s a four-chambered organ whose purpose is to pump blood. Left ventricle, right ventricle, left atrium, right atrium, and all the valves, tricuspid, mitral, pulmonary, and aortic.”

Let’s never come out,” he said. “Let’s stay here always.”

He bent to kiss her again, full of the certainty that nothing could make him move from that place-not hunger, nor exhaustion, nor pain, nor fear, nor war.