"...what really happens at the end is that you sit down and have coffee without looking at each other. There is a sort of strange relief: The thing that was hanging in the air like a gas leak, invisible and toxic, has happened. It's out. It's a relief. It is a solid, tangible. ...[they] are only being peaceful because they know what you don't: that there is no stopping whatever comes next, and so they might as well have coffee while they wait."
(The Center of Winter, Marya Hornbacher)
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