A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.