“There are no ghosts, Pappa said. But Maa always smiled softly when he said so. There were ghosts, she knew amongst the living and the dead, ghosts of the living and the dead, and often one couldn’t tell the two apart.” LifeDeathLivingDeadGhosts Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Was this what I wanted, the rest of my days being laid out for me? A life not of my choosing. Would I be able to live it out here, in this isolation, six months on an island, the days unfolding one into another, a series of Russian dolls, diminishing in their intensity and diminishing me as well. Would I be diminished? Or was this what I needed, to live here undisturbed for the rest of my life and never have to interact with the fractiousness of city living ever again?” LivingAloneIsolationCity Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Was I going to be living here permanently now? I didn’t know. What was permanent anyway, except where temporary stopped, and weren’t we all just temporary in our residence on this planet, in this dimension, anyway?” HomeEarthLivingResidence Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth