“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 suddenly realized how much she loved the rain; loved the way it seemed like the sky was purging something it held onto; the feeling of relief that settled over the earth the moment it passed. As if the universe, and all its tiny pieces, took one collective sigh and moved on to the next thing.”

“In a brief, surreal moment, she could see the young man he used to be in his smile.”

“For a brief moment, the rusted steel beams above her sparkled like stars.”

“She looked up and saw the right angles of time above her as the clock hit three.”

“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.”

“Her grandmother experienced them differently, as if they brought her remnants from another time, another life even, which she refused to acknowledge in any other context.”