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“Her genius, as has before been mentioned, is a genius for living, for being vital. Many people merely exist, are kept alive by others, or continue to vegetate because the persistence action of normal function will allow of their doing no less. Bettina Vanderpoel had lived vividly and in the midst of a self-created atmosphere of action from her first hour. It was not possible for her to be one of the horde of mere spectators where soever she moved there was some occult stirring of the mental and even physical air. Her pulses beat too strongly, her blood ran too fast to allow of inaction of mind of body.”

“Her girlhood was spent in graceless toil and crowned by an early marriage. Wasted by a quarter-century of childbearing, she saw a row of graves dug for her children. Often she survived as a widow to fend for the remainder of her brood. She could rarely influence the impetuous decisions of her husband and sons, and, never far from the family graveyard, mourned through long years the results of their errors.”

“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything about Grandma Waverley, to be everything she was. But Grandma Waverley must have sensed something in Sydney, a kindred soul, with Sydney's brightness and popularity. She gave Claire the wisdom of her old age, but she gave Sydney the secrets of her youth.”

“Her grandmother's cooking area was small- a tiny sink, no dishwasher, a bit of a counter- but out of it came tortellini filled with meat and nutmeg and covered in butter and sage, soft pillows of gnocchi, roasted chickens that sent the smell of lemon and rosemary slipping through the back roads of the small town, bread that gave a visiting grandchild a reason to unto the kitchen on cold mornings and nestle next to the fireplace, a hunk of warm, newly baked breakfast in each hand.”

“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”

“Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.”

“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.”

“Her gün yeni bir macera gibi başlar ama yaşanan her şey çoğunlukla tekdüzedir ve hemen hepsi hayal kırıklığı ile biter. Bazen gün boyunca yeni insanlar tanırsınız, onlarla ve yarattıkları şeylerle zaman geçirirsiniz, farklı yerlere gidersiniz ve her an bir şeyler olacakmış gibi gelir ama günün sonunda, ta uykunuzun geldiği o istemsiz âna kadar hiçbir şey olmaz. Hayat bir film, kitap ya da tiyatro oyunu değildir çünkü. Çok daha ışıltısız, çok daha plânsız ve çok daha acımasızdır. Ondan yine de keyif alırız çünkü bir şeylerin olacağına dair umudumuz vardır.”

“Her günün her sonu o günün en önemli zamanıdır çünkü geçmişinle yüzleşirsin ve yarına bir şans yakalarsın geçmiş hatalarını tekrar etmemek için!”