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"I had always allowed my mother to feel her feelings, and I suppose that, to some extent, I had established a system of emotional hierarchy that gave me permission to feel things about my mother's feelings, without over-shadowing them. Her feelings were free-range; my feelings were caged. Her feelings were a heap; my feelings were a pile of salt." !!

"This signal of human presence ought to have made the stars seem less remote and cold, but it managed to have exactly the opposite effect; just like the act of telling ghost stories around a campfire served to magnify the darkness beyond the flames. For a moment-one that she revelled in, no matter what Khouri made of it-it was possible to believe that the interstellar spaces beyond the glass were really haunted."