“Bits of the World:gathering up bits of the world & setting them out in an order that her children can understand”

“We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.”

“I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.”

“[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.”

“There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it’s true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too.”

“It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.”