And my conclusion is,' he said, 'since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

“Tiny and I are sitting with a table full of Drama People, and they are discussi…”

“He was too smart for the kinds of solace I could offer.”

“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book…”

“As I knelt, I realized they’d closed his eyes —of course they had— and that I w…”