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“If I could just get back to that room everything would be right again.”

“I think for a moment of the cold earth around the pale bones and I feel the same cold creep inside me, and if I had known I would willingly have curled into that wooden chest and kept her company for seventy years. I would never have let her be alone all that time. I would have done anything to be near her the way this bit of glass was.”

“'I'd have found it all out and Ma wouldn't have died without knowing. Sukey's things were in the garden, waiting for me, marking the place. Her compact was there, I found it too late, far too late. Now I'll never find her, will I? She'll always be missing and I'll always be looking for her.'”

“The place I knew has been buried. Soil upon spoil.”

“If I look away will I forget who she is?”