If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.

But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

You know nothing about my grief", said Anastasia. " So speak nothing of it.

I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.