“She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.”

“She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.”

“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity--he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find....”

“She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.”