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“She wondered instead why some of the sufferers, like Simon, stayed soft-while others met pain like a whetstone, sharpened it and turned it on the world.”

“I love them even before I've learned their names. Maybe it's their Irish-ness, their familiarity. Maybe it's the fabulousness of their sameness, or the strangeness of it.”

“There's something gentle in his eyes as he looks at me. "What makes a
young thing like you so tired of life!"
When I don't answer he hugs me. I am so surprised that I don't remember to return the embrace. There are very few people, in my understanding of the world, who offer tenderness so freely.”

“If I were capable of staying any place, it might be here. But the birds won't stay, and neither will I.”

“All creatures know love, Dad used to say. All creatures.”

"I'm trying to work out why you're so protective of a woman you
hardly know."
"Because someone ought to be." I spread my hands on the table; they're shaking. "Shouldn't we all be? How many women have to get killed before we get angry?" My voice breaks. "Why aren't we all angry?
Why aren't we furious, Duncan?"

“It is easy to tell myself that what passes between them is only biology, nature, but then who said love does not exist in the nature of all things?” (20)

“Is he using his fantasy of us running away together as a thin, lazy way to appease me? As a placeholder for being emotionally available?”

“There is no safe path with me, no path that allows us to gloss over the uncomfortable realities of my life”