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“Built in 1809, dear. My husband, God rest his soul, insisted on only the finest preservation work. If I’d had as many parts guarded against age as this house, I’d be carded when buying my bourbon.
“Has the use of a mirror gone out of fashion entirely?”
I appear to be slipping in my post-younger years.”
“For some people old age means growing stiff in the joints; others grow stiff in the head—as if the brain calcified on what people were thinking six decades ago.”
As the storm’s fury stilled, only drizzle remained, like an apology after a tantrum.
There’s a beauty, and there’s a strength, you know, that grows only in a long walk together in the same direction.”
“So Daniel’s real mother was . . .” The judge’s hand came up. “Daniel’s real momma was Chloe, as sure as that woman breathed. That’s how adoption works, Kate—a child gets born in your heart, and every ounce of your bone and your flesh and your soul become part of that child from then on.”
