Willie appeared completely calm about the news of Mother. She always said she could make tea in a tornado.

“Good men are often more practical than pretty.”

“People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They e…”

“Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere …”

“They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man’s suit, Mother in a dead m…”