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“she is drawn to the exhaustion of a lived life, to the man who has loved deeply and then lost suddenly and carries on. a man who has buried his wife and walked away and woke up to peel potatoes for dinner. a man who has lived through enough to appreciate the stones beneath his feet” -page 256

“maybe this is just what it means to be a person. to constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.” -page 170