When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

“When I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve…”

“There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except y…”

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious…”

“That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that …”