Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.

“Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.”

“These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we …”

“Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found s…”

“And though he continued never to express a single word of love for me, not in a…”