Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. - Anthony Doerr

Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one — that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

"Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time."

But have heart. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even. Take it from me.