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“If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.”
“He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.”
“In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?”
“The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.”
“Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in...”
“There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.”
“She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear or brushing his cheek with a dandelion blossom. Somebody who knows when you're b...”
“She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and...”
