Kate Green - childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under

childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.

- Kate Green

source: Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

topic: Country, Taken, People, Under Siege