“Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.”
“she thought about being held to the woman's chest, and lying there hair-smoothed and quiet until she felt she'd found home. ”
“She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.”
“Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living.Everything was different.”
“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”
“She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy.”