“I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.”

“If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.”

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would...”

“Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.”