“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.”
“Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.”
“Reader, I married him.”
“I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon”
“With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.”
“We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.”