![]() ![]() What’s right and what’s permitted are sometimes different things. If I started letting myself feel afraid I would never be able to stop. I took a deep breath, and filled my lungs with the scent of the ocean. On the other, the ocean spread flat and clean. On one side hills rose covered in brown winter grass. ![]() “It’s too late for me to have one now.” (c) ![]() “I needed a doll a long time ago,” I said. “The only way out of this is straight through." (с) I would have to think hard to find any good memories. I choked and then I was sobbing, and Susan rocked me back and forth, back and forth as if I was a little baby, as if she loved me, as if she always had. I went away to Butter’s pasture, to galloping through the green fields on Butter- (c) When things were very bad I could go away in my head, to a place where no one could touch me. We were still struggling not to drown in the storm-tossed sea. Jamie and I were shipwrecked, but we hadn’t been rescued after all. The Swiss Family Robinson got shipwrecked onto a beautiful island where everything turned out splendid for them. ![]() Mam hadn’t been much for words, and there was a limit to how much I could teach myself, looking out the one window of our flat. You can know things all you like, but that doesn’t mean you believe them. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2) ![]()
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