“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
“Close your mouth,block off your senses,blunt your sharpness,untie your knots,soften your glare,settle your dust.This is the primal identity.”
“Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.”
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
“Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious”