The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.