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Sometimes, returning home, Nell is overcome by a sense of loneliness: an intense feeling of dislocation that she is at once returning to the heart of her family, to the place she is most loved, and yet also to a place she is not entirely understood.
I learnt a long time ago that the people you’re related to by blood aren’t always those you’re closest to. Sometimes you have to find your own version of love, your own version of family.
Grief, she is learning, is love’s echo: it is not possible to have one without the other.
Familial love, she now understands, bears little relation to biology. Love transcends genetics, that much she has learnt.
