Breathless.
Dad put the photographs back in the box with a dark expression, as if he had wanted a trip down memory lane but when he got there he remembered it was his last favourite street.
"Okay, that's your grandparents. All you have to know about grandparents is that they were young once too. You have to know they didn't mean to be the embodiment of decay or even want especially to hold on their ideas until their final day. You have to know that they didn't want to run out of days. You have to know that they are dead and the dead have bad dreams. They dream of us."
- A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz
"Okay, that's your grandparents. All you have to know about grandparents is that they were young once too. You have to know they didn't mean to be the embodiment of decay or even want especially to hold on their ideas until their final day. You have to know that they didn't want to run out of days. You have to know that they are dead and the dead have bad dreams. They dream of us."
- A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz