# Quote — Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones

> “Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.” (p276)

- Author: [Edwidge Danticat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat.md)
- Book: [The Farming of Bones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/the-farming-of-bones.md)
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> I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share. (p252)

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> 'Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.' (p145)

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> '...Did the stars visit him upon me in caprice? To teach me that a lifetime can be vast as a hundred years or sudden as a few breaths? Enjoy this one you have left. It all passes so fast. In the time it takes to draw a breath.' (p116)

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