“I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
“Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
“Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.”
“Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.”
“About the trees my arms I wound;Like one going mad I hugged the ground;I raised my quivering arms on high;I laughed and laughed into the sky.”
“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.”