They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil. Yet, oddly, it was her father she felt she understood the best. And for a moment Annie wondered at this, that her brother and sister, good, responsible, decent, fair-minded, had never known the passion that caused a person to risk everything they had, everything they held dear heedlessly put in danger—simply to be near the white dazzle of the sun that somehow for those moments seemed to leave the earth behind.
Need I say more? (But I will.) This is Annie’s ability to transcend and to understand things in a way that her poor siblings cannot. Just because she is Annie. It sort of also describes how when she is on stage she barely hears the applause, she is only interested in getting somewhere else, in that case inside the head of the person she is playing. But this resonates with that—she leaves this world for another.
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