“This was the place where someone had led her, only she could not remember who and could not remember when. Just that this was where she was now.”

“What a world, she thought, where you could at one moment be under a cloud and the next, right in the heart of it; and then, in another moment, soaring high above them all.”

“She smiled, not because she felt confident that she could think of a solution, but for the gratitude that she wasn’t quite so alone in her pursuit.”

“Eventually, as her grandmother’s sobs softened, she pulled her away and – looking deeply into the clouds of her grey eyes – lifted her and led her home for the last time.”

“She did not know why the heat felt so heavy in that house, why all of a sudden it felt so much less like warmth than she remembered.”

“She didn’t quite know how to translate faces; so she wondered about Jerry, but that’s all she could do.”

“She was now on her way to an old world that was nothing but new to her.”