“It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”
“I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.”
“I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.”
“There is something about Christian that is old-fashioned and romantic.”
“There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs absurdly tall still stretching toward the light.”
“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”