Quotation

The Desk: She sent him a speculative look. “Do you really want to get rid of this desk?” “That will be up to you.” She shook her head, waved that off. “No, I’m asking you. Do you want to get rid of it?”They sprawled over the desk like barely conscious survivors of a cataclysm, and she gave a passing thought to the desk. How bad could it be if it “I guess. Maybe we should put that desk in some sort of display. With a plaque.” She could let go, she realized, of the old. Of an old desk, an old chair—old pieces of an old life. She had a new one. Reaching for his hand, she held it firmly in hers. She had a real one, built by both of them. “We’re going to get rid of that desk.”