“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.”
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“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
― Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
― Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
“All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find.”
― A Child's Christmas in Wales
― A Child's Christmas in Wales
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