“Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.” ThinkingMenMindLostFeltLossPossibilityBreathsForgottenConnectedPassingPassingsMourningFloatsSydney Book:Body Surfing: A Novel Source: Body Surfing: A Novel
“Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.” ThinkingMaySoulDesireCausesBreathsSentencesMidstPauses Author:Anita Shreve
