"She looked across the room to all the things which had come to her over the years and by now ought to give her some satisfaction. The inkwell nestled in a bronze bird's nest, the primitive oil of a church she'd found in that junk shop, the French enamel saucers with the fly pattern...they would last and not she. Is this what she would leave behind? The things in the house were not herself. The children would be left and they had come from her but they were not herself either. Nothing was herself but what had happened to her and the only place that was registered was inside. And even that was a kind of vapor." - Susan Minot
Stunning.
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