One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.
Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.