There was an abundance of sweetness. But I often felt I was observing it from a distance, rather than participating in the sweetness. - Sarah Ruhl

Listen to her the way you would listen
to your own daughter
if she died too young
and tried to speak to you
across long distances.

When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.