Wearing shoes in the house was barbaric. There was almost as much indignity in wearing shoes in the house as there was in being kidnapped.

“Never be so focused on what you are looking for that you overlook the thing you…”

“No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.”

“The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in t…”

“The part when they are together for a while, the two of them, before things go …”