“Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.”

“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”

“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”

“One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in onese...”

“I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.”

“That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

“I dont need words, I just need you to come back. - Taryn”

“To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with.”