Quote from Torn From the Inside Out
“For
the next half decade, I lived on the ‘flower bed of Eden’, as Cousin Andrew
called it. The days were never long
enough; perhaps that is why I hated to sleep.
Seasons came and went in a panorama of delight. The record ice storm of the early 1960’s was
a great memory to me as a small child, as I watched the storm through steam
fogged windows, warm and snug, as the loud popping of snapping pine trees
screamed with the howling winds. Nothing caused me to fear those years, because
I felt perfectly safe, as I expected I always would”
From:
The Journey
“When
the dark night ended, a new day dawned for us when my children were still
small, and the new day was a long as the long night had been, and in some ways,
just as frightening”
“Love
is one of the greatest human emotions and a powerful force in its own right,
but even love cannot prevent some things from happening”
“Sometimes when you become so
accustomed to loss, a new loss is only part of your usual ‘normal’”
“Our flight to freedom and safety was filled with a calm suppressed terror in the children and I, the type terror you have when you are used to living with danger
“He was dead, alright. The sight of death is
an ugly and fearsome thing, I thought, as I absorbed the tragic sight in front
of me. It was a man, ‘The man’ , was
lying in the road with blackish- red blood pooled around his head, and as he
lay face down with his feet in his own yard, while his head and shoulders were
planted in the street, he gave the appearance of a killed animal felled in its tracks by a hunter.
