“I broke my body trying. You choked on your tongue laughing. I prepared and waited. You covered your fear of failure with cheap bravery and antagonism. I was your figure of fun. You were nothing to me at all. I was your joke. You were my lesson. I failed in your world without trying. You failed without knowing.”
“There was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely; there was in the depths of her heart an awful fear.”
