“Once upon a time, in a little green house at the top of the world, there lived a girl who knew that stories didn’t stay in their books. She discovered that other people didn’t know this, didn’t want to know this, and so she hid the things she found. Now the girl was a mother, and she had her very own daughter; a clever, sweet creature who filled her life with color and beauty. And the mother began to show her child the secrets that no one else saw.”
