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“Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.”
“Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.”
“You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.”
“The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.”
“But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling”
“You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.”
“It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.”
“Eby knew all too well that there was a fine line when it came to grief. If you ignore it, it goes away, but then it always comes back when you least expect it. If you let it stay, if you make a pla...”
“She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her hand. She watched it from her pillow, wondering if it was real. It reminded her of her husband Mat...”
“She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.”
“Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.”
“There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.”
“Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting...”
“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them n...”
