Red at the Bone

by Jacqueline Woodson

Guess that’s where the tears came from, knowing that there’s so much in this great big world that you don’t have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you’ll have one less heartbreak in your life.

Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn’t even know it was out of?