“Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.”
“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”
“Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.”
“A single guy will do the right thing after exhausting every other option.”
“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”
“The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”