Quotation

The three main characters together in less tumultuous time: “You can see how I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else,” Karen said. “Denys wants to be buried here.” “A pair of eagles have an eyrie somewhere nearby,” he said. “I like the idea of them soaring nobly over my carcass.” He squinted into the sun, his face brown and healthy, his long limbs throwing purple shadows behind him. There was a single line of perspiration running along his back between his shoulder blades, and his white cotton sleeves were rolled over his smooth, tanned forearms. I couldn’t imagine him any other way but this: every inch of his body absolutely and completely alive. “The Kikuyu put out their dead for the hyenas,” I said. “If we could choose, I think I’d take eagles, too.”