There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.