vengerturtle:errorofyourways:“They don’t realize I am alive, she thought. They don’t know that anyo
vengerturtle:errorofyourways:“They don’t realize I am alive, she thought. They don’t know that anyone is alive but themselves…Turning it over in her head, she thought she understood why it was. Twins, always together, always two. If it was normal in their world to be two, what would other people, who came not in twos but ones, seem like to them? We must seem like halves, the Missus mused. And she remembered a word, a strange word it has seemed at the time, that meant people who had lost parts of themselves. Amputees. That’s what we are to them. Amputees.”- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale -- source link