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“I hope he was warm when he died. Perhaps he remembered the sun for a minute” (183).

“I could feel a breath of air on my cheek; it came from the sky I could see, but it smelled of smoke and ruin. Our house was a castle, turreted and opened to the sky” (177).

“I stood in the open doorway and saw that the lawn was marked with the tires of cars and the feet which had danced” (173).

“Although I did not perceive it then, time and the orderly pattern of our old days had ended” (171).

“Nothing was orderly, nothing was planned; it was not like any other day” (169).

“I thought that we had somehow not found our way back correctly through the night, that we had somehow lost ourselves and come back through the wrong gap in time, or the wrong door, or the wrong fairy tale” (167-168).

“It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years” (161).

“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out” (143).

“I looked at the house with all the richness of love I contained” (141).