“What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.”
Kim van Alkemade“What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.”
Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight“Built on the insubstantial foundation of our feelings, the life we had created together seemed a figment of our imaginations that dissolved into fairy dust in the face of something real, and deadly, like cancer.”
Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight“What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?”
Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight“Rachel had been worried she couldn't remember what Sam looked like”
now she worried he wouldn't recognize her.