“It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.”

“She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.”

“It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.”