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“Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment.” She was talking about angleworms, your honour

It was August, and the weather was sometimes stormy and sometimes nice, but for Grandmother, no matter what happened, it was only time on top of time, since everything is vanity and a chasing after the wind.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he’s been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn’t even realize that they had forgotten.

She has to spend more time with people she doesn’t like, before it’s too late

They had developed a habit, over the years, of not talking about painful things, in order to make them less painful

We had a wonderful time, and now I can’t even tell you what it was like

And unless I tell it because I want to, it’s as if it never happened; it gets closed off and then it’s lost.

That’s strange, Grandmother thought. I can’t describe things any more. I can’t find the words, or maybe it’s just that I’m not trying hard enough. It was such a long time ago. No one here was even born.