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«Anyone, Eliza is thinking, who describes dying as 'slipping away' or 'peaceful' has never witnessed it happen. Death is violent, death is a struggle. The body clings to life, as ivy to a wall, and will not easily let go, will not surrender its grip without a fight.»

«How easy is it, Agnes thinks, as she lifts the plates, to miss the pain and anguish of one person, if that person keeps quiet, if he keeps it all in, like a bottle stoppered too tightly, the pressure inside building and building, until – what? Agnes doesn’t know.»

«‘That you had more hidden away inside you than anyone else she’d ever met.’»

«She steps into the church, conscious of the three things she is holding. The ring on her finger, the spray of rowan berries, curled into her palm, the hand of her husband.»

This, I thought, was the reason Vivian needed the book so badly. Because no throne is held easily, or for long; because a nation is a story we tell about ourselves, and stories change, if you let them. Because where there is power, someone will oppose it.»

«There is, she has found, great power to be had in silence. Which is something this brother of hers has never learnt.»

«Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns. This moment is the absent mother’s: the boy, the empty house, the deserted yard, the unheard cry.»

«Te recortaste del nosotras. Te sacaste fuera. Te llevaste a otra vida, a otra casa que nunca me invitaste a conocer. Te sacaste fuera y dejaste un vacío con tu silueta. (...) Escribo desde mi lado de la foto sin ti. Escribo para darle un lugar al dolor, para señalar el recorte de tu figura. Escribo porque el vacío importa.»

«Die, and be redeemed. Die, and be remembered. Die, and live forever.»

«I couldn't do it any longer, not for her. But for you — I would be a hero. One last time.»

«Encomiendo tu cuerpo a las estrellas.»

De momento me están gustando los flashbacks, pero creo que la narración del presente se me va a hacer muy cuesta arriba

«In order to have a future worth fighting for, you must have a last worth remembering.»

«Vivo en un tiempo que devora el mundo.»

«Vivíamos en dos tiempos diferentes, simplemente eso. Eran dos tiempos cuyos márgenes se habían desbordado. Y en algún punto los ríos se encuentran y corren juntos. Algo así como una especie de Mesopotamia del tiempo, donde Eufrates y Tigris no son sino dos maneras distintas de nombrar el agua. Nos encontrábamos agusto en Mesopotamia>»

«I only knelt for a while in the place where the woods had once been, but were no longer, until I understood what every person understands eventually: that I had left home and could never return to it, and that there would never be a time when I did not miss it.»

«Una pequeña variación, un error en una secuencia numérica, una fractura en el tiempo, un defecto que yo no tenía la posibilidad de subsanar de inmediato, un problema cuyo alcance aún no era capaz de anticipar, y que por lo tanto tampoco podía llamar nimiedad ni desgracia, pero que que justo entonces, mientras pisaba las baldosas frente a la casa, me pareció un pormenor del que ya me ocuparía en otro momento.»

«We are searching, she told herself. And we will know what we are searching for, when we find it.»