"Yes," Grandmother said. "But a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult." - P81
Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn’t even realise that they had forgotten. - P82
If you squinted and thought about something else, it might almost be a channel marker – an objective indicator that here was a change, of course. - P83
Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he’s been through; it is a sheath of memories and security. - P84
She would sit in a cardboard box and stare at the robe, and she would say dreadful, crushing things, and it was hard for the robe to talk back. - P85
Wise as she was, she realised that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they’re eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an eye on herself. - P85
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