Part 20 (1/2)
Black Beauty, Anne of Green Gables, Freckles, Twice Told Tales, Beautiful Joe, Mill on the Floss, Pocahontas, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Helen's Babies, Our Mutual Friend, Nellie's Memories, Jane Eyre, The Unification of Italy, Beowulf, The Romantic Poets, In His Steps, Wild Geese, Gone With the Wind, Claudia, The First Six Years, Grapes of Wrath, Forever A and I, Cheaper by the Dozen, lust for Life, The Web and the Rock, The Skutari Saga, A Brief History of the Orkney Isles, Chekhov's Daughter, The Edible Woe print edition), Murder in the Meantie print edition, half finished)
”What do you mean you don't think anyone's ever ready?”
”Christ, I'ht thisdepressed about not having a job You're not really ready at all And I'll bet you she wasn't either”
”I don't know”
”Did you ever get a chance to talk to her about, you know-”
”Death? You couldn't talk to her about things like that”
”She'd change the subject”
”She'd put on the baffled schoolgirl look”
”Blink her eyes”
”Her mouth in a little round circle”
”Her eyebrows”
”When it co”
”It runs in the faranite”
”Little pellets”
”Hailstones”
”I do remember that once she said she liked pansies at a funeral Not those dumb pansies with faces What she liked were the absolutely pure purple ones, those deep, deep velvety petals
That's the only thing I can re apropos to death”
”She just let her life happen to her”
”Well, why the hell not?”
”It was like-”
”Like?”
”Like she was always going after soht with a needle and thread”
”Afraid to look inside herself In case there was nothing there”
”Isn't that what Buddhists try so hard to get to?”
”The Buddhists?”