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41 " One of the things Rune admired about Lucy was her impractical curiosity. She was writing notes in the margins. "
― Leif Enger , Virgil Wander
42 " It made me think of Penelope waiting for Odysseus—Penelope at her loom, not missing a trick, lumpen suitors everywhere. "
43 " Why am I still surprised when it turns out there is more to the story? "
44 " There is nothing wrong with being kissed on the cheek by a sweet round woman in a café after you have nearly died. "
45 " she had a name made to be embroidered on bowling shirts. "
46 " Large tomatoes and inner tranquillity are a bewitching combination. "
47 " The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.Virgil Wander "
48 " and one of those interpretive historical markers your aunt reads aloud while nobody listens "
49 " Greenstone is cursed. We had mines, but they shut. Ships used to dock, now they sail past. Our water tower comes loose and rolls over people, our congressman gets leprosy, Bob Dylan drives through and gets two flat tires.” Ann glowed as the idea coalesced—she couldn’t have been more incandescent if she’d physically caught fire. “Hard luck! That’s our legacy. "
50 " She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time. "
51 " At bottom, what God seemed to want was affirmation. Basically praise in every circumstance. Without it he could turn menacing in a hurry. "
52 " I'm still fairly far reduced. I may never be unabridged again. "
53 " He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed. "
54 " You needed only pliers and a crescent wrench and the sense of a common farm duck, “all of which,” Rune said, “my uncle possessed. "
55 " We all dream of finding but what’s wrong with looking? "
56 " In one extremely satisfactory dream I was the rain and fell with merry violence on streets and asphalt rooftops... "
57 " Don't fear occasional ghosts. Every day my mind suggests two or three impossible things. "
58 " The drink was a storm cloud with coffee thundering around inside it. "
59 " When a person is gripped by a fugue or idea you can't just busy him out of it, not for long anyway. "
60 " I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return. "