Royal Quiet DeLuxe

Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us strawberries. Marilynne Robinson, Ho...

"So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, and intolerable waiting, a longing for another place and time, another condition....

"I’m not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence . . . are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family....