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“(She herself had been unwell all her life, she’d say out loud, she could die at any moment; it was a gambit that worked until she was a hundred and four and God caught on.)”

“…there was a fresh proof of the universal truth that a man becomes more interesting to a woman once he is shown to have a heart.”

“Something was being bestowed. Not that many dared to say so outright. Perhaps because of a not-yet-eroded belief in the nearness of the unknown, and an unknown with a broad yellow malicious streak in it, people didn’t tempt bad luck by claiming good. Things said out loud had a potency, a man on a high horse easily knocked, and no one wanted to say _We are blessed_.”

“When you are born in one century and find yourself walking around in another there’s a certain infirmity to your footing. May we all be so lucky to live long enough to see our time turn to fable.”