“Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.”
“In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now.”
“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.”
“This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.”
“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”
“My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.”