“The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But sometimes life demanded ceremony. Sometimes you owed that to yourself.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also he had learned that a person could be happy with having done the best they could… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“It appeared that a great part of victory--or at least survival--was simply a dogged hanging on.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“Looking out toward the open water she thought they could have floated in time, landed anywhere in the last thousand years.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“You've given her a new lease on life.' 'She didn't need one. She owns life.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“Apartments in Crosscut weren't just depressing. They were wrist-slittingly bleak, and not quite as cheap as Madeline had imagined.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“She walked, and with each step she let another inch of the long furl of her expectations go. The place itself was like a… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“She hunkered down, stared across the horizon. Felt the vast cold world spread out all around her and was reassured by the impersonality of… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
“You know, people thought it was so sad that I gave up so much to take care of Emmy, but it wasn't sad. It… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
