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1. "Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
2. "that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
3. "Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
4. "By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
5. "There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
6. "A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
7. "I sat thinking. How it was she who'd mentioned love first. How she seemed to be waiting, the door still between us, for me to act. And I imagined that if I reached for her I would find her where she lay waiting in the water, and my fingers would glide over her bare wet skin until every inch of her, every crook and hollow, would become mine. I would vouch for her with my life." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
8. "I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
9. "Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded." ~ John Burnham Schwartz
10. "She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?" ~ John Burnham Schwartz
11. "Why? What had she ever done? What had any of them ever done? To give a child only to take him away. To make and then unmake, as if a family weren't built of lives but of things that could be broken, returned, thrown out--" ~ John Burnham Schwartz

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As the paramedics lifted her, my grandmother's corpulent arms swung like bat wings with the life squeezed out of them."
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