“…life burns hottest when there is something we can't understand, and that thing I can’t understand feels like hearing whispers from the sun.”

““I have been told that words are very hard to write in a dream, and even harder to read. So as I write I will not be able to look back on what I am saying and be able to check whether or not I have begun to dsistance myself from the truth.”

““Have you ever lost something precious to you. Something so important, that the idea of being without it seems like an impossibility…Losing something like that could cause anyone to do terrible things, just to get it back.”

“I received a letter from Margaret. There were strange brown stains on the paper, but I haven't been willing to get it tested.”

“The smell of the snowmelt comes in from the window of the old porch we have in back of our house.”