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“I had one of those stopovers when the children were young, just before Gilbert died, and Daan and I were happy, even though I didn’t know it was happiness at the time because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self-doubt. But Gilbert’s death was a swift ejection back out to the loneliest bitter stretch of road, and that is the bone crunching grief.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I will go to dinner with you when you are here in late August because it seems you are rather prepared to continue to ask until the end of your days, or mine.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“In your letter from March you mentioned the matter of your boredom. Of course you are bored. The mind was not created for idleness. Golf, drinking, staying in one’s pajamas until late in the morning, stretching oneself to find ways in which to pass the days is the way we were meant to spend our vacation weeks, not decades of our”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I wonder what I will do when I am no longer able to see. I am much too old a dog for the learning of a new trick, like Braille or dictation. I suppose, like a fish plucked from the pond and left on a sunbaked dock, I’ll probably die.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent