“...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.”
“Oh, she's got so in the habit of living she'll never die.”
“I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently”
“She was the spare room that never got tidied, the e-mail that never got answered, the loan that never got repaid, the symptom that never got described to a doctor.”
“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”
“Well, from now on, she would never complain when he got so engrossed in his laptop that he failed to hear anything that she was saying.”