Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.