I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.