When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.

“Those last months. No way of wrapping it pretty or pretending otherwise: Rafa w…”

“Clavo saca clavo.Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”

“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on …”

“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with …”