“…and there is really no such thing as youth, there is only luck, and the enormity of something which can happen, whence a person, any person, is brought deeper and more profoundly into sorrow, and once they have gone there, they can’t come back, they have to live in it, live in that dark, and find some glimmer in it.”
—
Edna O’Brien, Down by the River
(Quoted in Cheryl Strayed’s Torch.)
