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Quote #10

That surprised Dicey. She swallowed, remembered, and nodded her head. "I saw a tombstone, once. It had—"Home is the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea." (10.116)

When the shopkeeper asks Dicey on the night of her mother’s death if she has a mantra, this is the one Dicey gives him. Even as she dreams of sailing away in the boat she’s restoring, she imagines death as a return to the shore.