“Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination”
“And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.”
“Personally, I’ve been here since 1982, and I’d say it’s about time for breakfast.”
“I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.”
“I’d been raised to be practical and keep myemotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the fewlegacies I’d picked up from my mom. She was a mechanic,and some of my best childhood memories were of workingin the garage with her.”
“...I felt the stirring even of parts of me that had been dead since childhood, that sense of the child as a sort of antenna stuck in the middle of an infinite expanse of possibilities. ”