“It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”
“It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel.”
“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
“Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.”
“It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.”
“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.”