Sylvie Grohne

“Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.”

“The only things that got me through those years were a half dozen books I stole and through which I escaped reality time and again. I never tired of reading them, even reading them aloud to myself, until the characters between the covers became dear to me, like old friends.”