Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: home.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.