If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.

“He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in d…”

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, noth…”

“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things chan…”

“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankin…”