"The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase."

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If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

— Madeleine L'Engle