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"A few faint lights and voices drifted out of other houses. Why did inviting someone to trust you necessarily mean you had to reveal everything, give up the power to re-create yourself? Why did people act as if revelation always equaled honesty...?" / PG 150

"She told us, whenever she went away, to a conference or on a camping trip in Algonquin Park by herself, how much she enjoyed missing us: It was a kind of love, she savoured it like a taste. If we listened, couldn't we feel it, like a pulse, our missing her, her missing us? She said it was important for everyone to know how to go off by themselves, to stretch the edges of their own skin, to test themselves in solitude or darkness." / PG 184

- catherine bush