When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

“I don't mean to be rude' I said, 'but what are you people?''We're peculiar,' he…”

“Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been …”

“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an exp…”

“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.”