Status Updates From The Summer Book

"The sheltering tent had let in the night, as close as if she'd been sleeping on the open ground … And immediately she started thinking about what it would be like to get scared. “Oh, dear God, don't let them make fun of me if I do get scared!"”

"I can't describe things any more. I can't find the words, or maybe it's just that I'm not trying hard enough ... And unless I tell it because I want to, it's as if it never happened; it gets closed off and then it's lost."