Status Updates From Said the Dead

A thought occurs:
What she insists is fact
is often dreamt at a slant.
From a constable’s testimony,
she extrapolates a scene
of sisterly laughter,
failing to see the medical bags
in both bicycle baskets, and
a stranger’s refusal to believe
that two girls could possibly
be hurrying to a patient’s side.

„All she could say was that if the turn of each blue page was the turn of a wave, the volume of words remaining was oceanic.

But all bodies of water are finite.
What would she do,
once she reached the last page
of the last book?“

„She read and read, because she had woken these voices, and to stop reading would silence them. But even if she was to stop reading, they might keep speaking in her dreams, […] in traffic, in the swimming pool, in the library or the post office queue. The only way to let them rest would be to find a way towards an ending. If all she had to lead them there were casebooks, well then, she'd have to keep reading.“

„Terrible to see,
and terrible to read.
The sorrows of these lives —
what draws her towards them?
What might it reveal of her own pain,
that she chooses to immerse herself
entirely in the lives of others?“

„She seized her rage by the throat and drowned it in the docile grin she held up at him, she grinned and grinned, until finally, her grin shivered like glass, and fell.“

I'm enjoying this book so much but it's so different and more complex than what I usually read and I've got to finish it before Wednesday for a bookclub meeting. Stressing.