Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982)

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Oh, it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son — did I tell you that when you were young?

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'The doctor says I'm going blind,' she told the children, but privately, she'd intended to do no such thing.

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'I'm falling into disrepair,' she told the children. 'I've outlived myself.'

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See, there's this cook, this real country cook, and pot roast is the least of what she does. There's also pan-fried potatoes, black-eyed peas, beaten biscuits genuinely beat on a stump with the back of an ax.

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'You almost died,' a nurse told her. But that was nonsense. Of course she wouldn't have died; she had children. When you have children, you're obligated to live.

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She'd been preoccupied with death for several years now; but one aspect had never before crossed her mind: dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out.

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It was typical of him that he lacked the taste to make a final exit. He spent too long at his farewells, chatting in the doorway, letting in the cold.

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She had supposed that on her deathbed, she would have something final to tell her children when they gathered round. But nothing was final. She didn't have anything to tell them. She felt a kind of shyness; she felt inadequate.

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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

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