For I knew already that something had taken me from me and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time before, a time before fear, a time before shame. And now that knowledge had a voice, and it was a voice that rose from the depths of my years and howled into the night sky like a wounded animal longing for home.
OH MY GOD. So perfectly said. Tears are streaming down my cheeks. Been a LONG time since a book could do this.
