Highlights
She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside her were permitted to come out. If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of these sub-personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, beacuse they know if they utter a single word some man will come and put them to work.
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.