There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.
Anthony MarraFor their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.
Anthony MarraSleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
Anthony MarraInvader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
Anthony MarraWhat parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.
Anthony Marra