“Where did they come from, her children? And how did they arrive already themselves, and unlike anyone else?” ChildrenPersonalityParenting Book:A Place for Us Source: A Place for Us
“For a moment, Layla glanced at Amar's journals, but she could barely make sense of his handwriting. Each deciphered sentence threatened to unravel her understanding of him and carried with it the threat of more secrets. It did not matter that she was his mother. What she could ever hope to know of him was just a glimpse -- like the beam of a lighthouse skipping out, only one stretch of waves visible at a time, the rest left in the unknowable dark.” ChildrenParentingParenthood Book:A Place for Us Source: A Place for Us
“I panicked, not knowing what my children were capable of, having been made aware suddenly that the limit of their behavior was nothing my greatest fears could even conjure...Maybe anything we could have wanted to instill in them was, at best, a hope.” ChildrenHope Book:A Place for Us Source: A Place for Us