It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy. - Jane Yolen

We are all sleeping princesses some time. But it is better to be fully awake, don't you think?"..."Americans do not want to be awake?"
"Oh," Becca said, "we like the truth all right. When it's tidy."
"Truth is never tidy. Only fairy tales.

I actually said a little prayer of my own then, my first since we had arrived: Please, God—get me out of this nuthouse!

I took a deep breath. God…I prayed.
And then I realize that I had nothing more to say to him.
Nothing at all.