““Lily?' she whispered. Lily didn't move. 'Can I tell you something?' Lily breathed deeply, clearly asleep. 'I think all my life my heart's been broken,' Adri whispered, 'and I didn't even notice. And I don't even know by what.' It wasn't because of any one thing - not losing parents she didn't remember, not growing up in the group home - not the obvious things. It felt more like it had just come from being born, from time existing.””
