“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”

“For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”

“Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world.”

“You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.”

“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”

“The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.”