He didn't mean it. It happened before he was through. She'd stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, he'd turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habit - this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.
-Toni Morrison
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