The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person. - Louise Erdrich

If you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book (The Night Watchman) erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.

I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain.