I feel that I have been diminished, and yet at the same time magnified. I’m beginning to understand why people’s brains can sometimes become addled like eggnog, without their even noticing the change. One day you’re Flavia de Luce and the next you’re not, and presumably you will have to wait through patient eons, like an evolving caveman, to discover who it is you’re in the process of becoming. I know I’m not the girl I once was, but I’m not yet sure who I really am. Nor, when it comes right down to it, am I now even sure who I used to be. I’m like a tightrope walker teetering on the edge of
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