What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?
Jeanette WintersonOdd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.
Jeanette Winterson