„Have T-Shirts ever brought such escape?“

„Yes, my father was truly lovely.“

„An impermanence in the air.“

„A laugh I will never laugh again.“

„‚I have eight cars,‘ my sister’s wealthy suitor once boasted, and my father replied, ‚Why?'“

„Part of grief’s tyranny is that it robs you of remembering the things that matter.“

Prolog

„In those years, he seemed remote.“

„This is an afflicition not merely of the spirit but of the body, of aches and lagging strength.“