"It is strange, being here," Goodsir says after a short silence. "After one has ... resigned oneself to one's fate, as it were. It took me a little while to decide what to do with it."
Other options:
no subject
"It is strange, being here," Goodsir says after a short silence. "After one has ... resigned oneself to one's fate, as it were. It took me a little while to decide what to do with it."