Staring isn’t difficult. I can do it all day long. Without blinking, if I want to, which is sometimes painful, but always useful. The trick is to not really look at them, but to focus ten yards beyond, on nothing, which produces a glassy effect, which makes them worry, mostly about what’s going on behind your empty eyes.

Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up.

There is no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Written By Alice Sebold

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