I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.