9 7 W A L K

"It's awful, being a child", she said simply. "At the mercy of other people."

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

when not to think about the passage of time/your life:

“Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.”

“He knew that by confessing, one earned the subtle right to become confessor to the other, in his turn. A secret deserves a secret, and a tale deserves a tale; the gentle expectation of a response in kind was a pressure he knew how to apply.”

“According to the police, of course, our community was a rogue community. It was we who were the enemy, we who were the terrorists, the civilian terrorists, the associates of terrorists or simply individuals suspected of being but not yet discovered to be terrorists. That being the case, and understood by both parties to be the case, the only time you’d call the police in my area would be if you were going to shoot them, and naturally they would know this and so wouldn’t come.”