Mark Iskarous

“Rose has always been aware of a darkness, a roiling cloud, in her parents, a sense of rupture, a lack of rootedness. She has forever carried, like a heavy bag strapped to her back, the sense that she wasn’t able to assuage their losses: she was too small, too ignorant, to aid them, to make up for what they lacked. She didn’t know how to ask them about it, how to form those questions, where to begin, what to say. And now it was too late. They were both gone.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Land