You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.