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There’s something very peculiar about growing up in the shadow of a dead older brother: children in that situation become either terrified of everything or nothing at all. Maya fell into the second group.
She’s getting smoother and smoother, smaller and smaller. Sometimes Maya misses her.
We become what we are told we are. Ana has always been told that she’s wrong.
He buys the records because they calm him down. They remind him of Isak. He’s never told her that.
Peter took Maya and Leo out tobogganing and Kira stood by the car and watched them disappear into the swirling whiteness. It was so beautiful and so ominous at the same time. She felt so bereft once they had vanished from sight that she cried all the way to the office.
It’s Saturday, and everything is going to happen today. All the very best, and all the very worst.
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.
Then he took everything that hurt him and went straight out into the forest.
It doesn’t matter who sits together that day. Everyone eats lunch on their own.
“Because he’s a challenge.”
“You’re the one who’s wrong, Maya. Because you think he’s still my best friend.”
Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community?
“When I was little, my dad used to hit me if I spilled my milk, Leo. That didn’t teach me not to spill things. It just made me scared of milk. Remember that.”
Because friendship is both complicated and not complicated at all.
