Цитаты из книги Light and Thread

Love is located in a private place called "my heart," the child wrote in April 1979. (It is inside mythump-thumping beating chest.) And as for what love was, this was her reply. (It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts.)

I had written these lines on the first page of every new diary:

Can the present help the past? Can the living save the dead?