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“ When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order to simply move forward through their days. If that suspension faltered, if you truly understood, even if only for a moment, that human beings were made of bones and blood that broke and sprayed with the slightest provocation, and that provocation was everywhere--in street curbs and dangling tree limbs, bicycles and pencils--well you would fly for the first nest in a tree, run flat-out for the first burrow you saw. ”

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You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

~ Erica Bauermeister

While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many until they were a white froth rising up and then lying down again in patters and ridges, leaving an intricate design like the ribs of a leaf in the wake of the beaters

~ Erica Bauermeister

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

~ Erica Bauermeister

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

~ Erica Bauermeister