Orfe (13 page)

“Only Yuri could have done it, for himself, and he didn't. Or he wouldn't. Or he couldn't.

“Somebody tells him that it hurts, and what could I say, Enny?”

I didn't know.

“I could feel him leaving me. I turned to him, without any song to sing. He turned away from me. He went back down the hallway. What kind of fools are they, they think life is never going to hurt? If they think they can be safe and never hurt and still be alive? Can you imagine it?” Orfe asked.

“Yes,” I said.

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Bad, Badder, Baddest

It's Not Easy Being Bad

Bad Girls in Love

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Homecoming

Dicey's Song

A Solitary Blue

The Runner

Come a Stranger

Sons from Afar

Seventeen Against the Dealer

THE KINGDOM SERIES

Jackaroo

On Fortune's Wheel

The Wings of a Falcon

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1992 by Cynthia Voigt
First Simon Pulse edition, February 2002

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Voigt, Cynthia.

Orfe / Cynthia Voigt.

p. cm.

Summary: Enny tells of her relationship with Orfe, an unusually talented musician, and of the love between Orfe and Yuri, a recovering addict.

ISBN 0-689-31771-9 (hc)

[1. Rock music—Fiction. 2. Drug abuse—Fiction.] I.
Title.

PZ7.V874Or   1992

[Fic]—dc20  91-46058

ISBN 978-0-6893-1771-2

ISBN 978-1-4391-1646-3 (eBook)