
"Gardens made food, and food made families."
This book is intriguing me and horrifying me at the same time. How can history be so cruel?
"If you are a teenager now, it is unlikely that you knew us well. We are your shadow uncles, your angel godfathers, your mother's or your grandmother's best friend from college... We are the ghosts of the remaining older generation. You know some of our songs... We taught you how to dance..."
"It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us."