“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
“and you and I left with the same old question the sheer unspeakable strangeness of being here at all ”
“I leave before being left. I decide.”
“Lately I've been thinking a lot about leaving versus being left, and how obvious it is that leaving is easier. It was for me.”
“In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.”
“To see how Grandfather handles leaving, and tosee how we manage being left.”