Suddenly I’m happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is – not a dream or a promise – just living for the moment.

In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and sometimes the parts even have titles that are full of promise—’The Meeting’, ‘Hope’,...

Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can’t chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow deep down inside. You can’t chase away the reverberations or the memories that...

Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked...

But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that...

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and...