“My mother was always surprised by time.”
—Joy Williams, “Escapes”
A beautiful sentence from an exquisitely heart-breaking story that perfectly renders the mother’s disconnect from the world at large.
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Good on yer, Laura, for finding a short, simple sentence and not one suffering from conjunctionitis.
This reminds me of “I was never not mostly afraid,” from “Where the Dark Ended” by William Tester.