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I’m not sure I could like a man without opinions, I said

Of some experiences, the Dictionary would only ever provide an approximation. Sorrow, I already knew, was one of them.

This war is going to slow the Dictionary down. It’s a gun they want in their hand, not a pencil.

From then on, I woke every morning with a dread fear.

She had ideas I wanted to understand and she said things I could not. She cared more for what mattered and less for what didn’t. When I was with her I felt I might do something extraordinary. With her gone, I feared I never would.

The dictionary is a history book, Esme. If it has taught me anything, it is that the way we conceive of things now will most certainly change. How will they change? Well, I can only hope and speculate, but I do know that your future will be different from the one your mother might have looked forward to at your age.

it’s a DNF for me

“What I am certain of is this: my body feels depleted, like a foreign country after a war. And yet I cannot go back to sleep.”

“The white chalk edge of the cliff was thick and sharp against the blue sky, like a child’s drawing.”