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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
“Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.”
“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”
“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend th...”
“And she thought then how strange it was that disasterthe sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the facecould be at...”
“Night would settle in like slow blindness, sucking the color from the trees and the low sky and the rocks and the frozen grass and the frost white hydrangeas until there was nothing left in the win...”
“Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as we...”
“And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face—could be ...”
