Normal society flowed. People went to work, went to school programs, raised families, but over here where no one was looking, there was awfulness with children trapped in it, slowly sinking.

There are dangerous people ready to pull the seams out of everything you've stitched together, and they can pull apart faster than you can hold.

They don’t last long. It's horrible and filled with more pain and misery than a full life can hold, but it's rarely a long time. The treatment is too rough and too careless, and they are so fragile.

Memory is the great torturer.