Allen & Unwin

Being mayor of Empire Falls was a full-time job with a part-time salary,

If chickens had any idea what was in store for them, they’d stay where they were in their eggs.

Good fences make good neighbors.

The terrible truth was that such slender gestures seemed even to Miles, at sixteen, both too much and too little, more than just about everyone else was willing to do but far less than conscience dictated.

it was a lot easier to forget a thousand things you wanted to remember than the one thing you wanted to lose sight of.

Just because things happen slow doesn’t mean you’ll be ready for them.

“Slow” works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there’s plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you’ll always be slower.

If one’s level is low, it takes months before the level stabilises at a higher point through ingesting a regular daily supplement. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble hormone, which means that once it is formed or taken as a supplement, it is rapidly stored in

tissue in the body. Because of this storage, it takes quite a while for vitamin D levels measured in the blood to come up after regular sun exposure, or after taking an oral dose of vitamin D. So, for a person without MS, if the level is low some doctors would simply start a supplement, and the blood level would eventually come up to normal over a period of months. For PwMS, however—particularly those just diagnosed or having a relapse—it is critical to get the blood level up quickly if it is low,

persistently low level increases the likelihood of the disease being more active