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Yes, she's grumpy, but a skinny latte soon takes the edge off her, most days, anyhow--like throwing a steak into the lion enclosure.
Tea had featured heavily in the past fortnight. Miriam sometimes felt her belly sloshing with it, like a waterbed, yet still she took tea when it was proffered, for the symbolism, she supposed - solicitude, comfort, warmth. It is the English way, after all.
One minute you are loved, and then you are not.
I am of an age for grief.
Life... is full of compromises you never thought you'd make when you were young.
He misses her. He miser her, he misses her, he misses her. ...Seven miserable lonely days of missing someone he never should have been with in the first place, yet wanting her back even so. He wonders if he could overlook her lack of human sympathy and generalized air of bitterness, just so he could have the feeling of being together again.
She's alone so much these days, in part because when the sand drifts receded, along with the departure of the children, they left an excess of time, while Ian's existence maintained its steady course, which was essentially Rushing About Being Important.
She's always rehearsing, having imaginary conversations in her head that preempt real encounters
Thinking how she loved the very flesh of her. You got used to that with children, love crashing over you like waves.
...you get to an age when your attachments are so solidly stacked around you, like the bookshelves that reach to the ceiling in the lounge, and they are so built into the fabric of your life that compromise seems nothing next to their dismantling.
In the silence, she realizes she wants Alan to persuade her--to do the right thing, to cast practicalities aside and take Fly in, out of goodness, unalloyed. it matters where his compass lies, to which side of hers.
