. . . he told me that nature will always work her own cures, if people would be patient enough, and give her time. (Prologue, p. 3)

It's a way older people have: without even meaning to they let people younger than them know that they aren't in the same club. (Chapter 1, p. 16)

I could listen all night when Jesse got to going back over his life, but the story never lasted long enough, and it always ended with him getting tireder and more sad. (Chapter 1, p. 20)

I had got where I would rather go to Thalia and goof around on the square than listen to his old-timy stories. (Chapter 1, p. 22)

Granddad had got so he would walk a mile rather than involve himself with the government offices, and even so, compared to Hud he thought they were little darlings. (Chapter 2, p. 30)

"I spent all my time following a couple a work...