An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.

I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.