The Sundowner's Dance Quotes

“A town without a library is like a skull without a brain.”
― Todd Keisling, The Sundowner's Dance

“Was this how he’d spend the rest of his life? Clutching at the memories of his best friend, fearful the might fade like old photographs? The swell of grief was as instant as it was heavy. A sucker punch of reality, time and gravity. Getting older would mean losing her again in the most insidious of ways. His memories of her would disappear in time, beginning with the little details he hadn’t considered savoring in the moment. What she had for breakfast the day after their wedding or what she wore on a random Wednesday ten years ago. All the fractured minutia of a life, forgotten moments, cracked and chipped and flaking away like an old painting.”
― Todd Keisling, The Sundowner's Dance

“Who am I without you? He’d spent every moment of their marriage terrified that she would be the one to die first, not only because it would break his heart. Because her death would mean resetting himself back to zero. (…) Jerry hadn’t merely stood in her shadow, he was her shadow. Her passing had freed the sun to erase his definition.”
― Todd Keisling, The Sundowner's Dance