Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,” I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke)

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

I used to be someone.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.