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”What she didn’t envy was the look that Michael had spoken of on the hillside, the widow’s shock at the sudden absence, and perhaps solitude is more frightening when something is snatched away.”

“If only there was something humans could do, a system of mutually comprehended sounds and gestures to express thoughts and feelings…In the absence of straight talk, they’d have to persevere with irony, hints and double meanings; the brush of a hand, looks and smiles and wrestling in their underwear. Jane Austen stuff.”

“Sometimes, she thought, it’s easier to remain lonely than present the lonely person to the world” 🥺