Winter (Seasonal, #2)

“That’s what art is. It’s a way of saying, look: this happened.”

Art connects us when we have nothing left to say. Art and Iris arguing about protests feels so much like my own family holidays.

Lux is a complete stranger but she saves their Christmas. Sometimes an outsider sees the truth of a family better than the people in it.

“It was a child’s head. It was just a head.”

Sophia starts seeing a floating disembodied head. It feels like a perfect metaphor for how grief and age detach us from reality.

“The past is always changing.”

Memory is unreliable and messy. We rewrite our own history just to deal with the people we used to be.