“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”
“That perilous distance from where the face of any woman would look ugly.”
“Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella”
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”
“She should have looked ridiculous, standing there wet and bedraggled in her silly underwear, but she looked magnificent. Like some kind of mythical goddess rising from the mists of time.Statuesque, utterly feminine. Breathtaking.”
“Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.”