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"Whether they were tears of relief, sadness from losing the baby, or something else entirely, she herself couldn't tell."

"The saving grace, Rosalie thought, is that not all pains and not all worries are permanent. Some, time-sensitive, can be desensitized by time. How else could a parent, or anyone, go on living courageously?"

Disturbed by all the violence directed at the cat. I think it's supposed to support the theme, but still.

"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

"You light a fire early in your girlhood. You stoke it and tend it. You protect it at all costs. You don’t let it rage into a mountain of light, because that’s not becoming of a girl. You keep it secret. You let it burn."

"After your children's mother went missing, you realized that it was your wife who was missing. Your wife, whom you'd forgotten about for fifty years, was present in your heart. Only after she disappeared did she come to you tangibly, as if you could reach out and touch her."

As a woman, the husband's chapter feels like a horror story.

Funny and compelling so far!