“ The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could. ”
Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.
~ Sara Nović
I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.
Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.
I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly