With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
But it’s funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
She didn’t care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially–romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.
Seriously,” the banker went on, “what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.”“Murder.
We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.
So you’re positive the killer is a man.”“Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don’t cut out other women’s hearts.”“We can.