Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.