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not sure why i have a hard time figuring out what is going on in claire keegans short stories

"'Do you know what the women have a gift for?'

'What?'

'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.'"

"Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing."

"She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed, but she sometimes is."

"It is something I am used to, this way men have of not talking: they like to kick a divot out of the grass with a boot heel, to slap the roof of a car before it takes off, to spit, to sit with their legs wide apart, as though they do not care. When Mrs Kinsella comes out, she pays no heed to the men."