Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.