“The best way was to make something, silently, secretly, and then have it appear in the world in all of its magnificent and surprising glory. Like birth, she thought. To push a thing from the most private part of yourself. To have it scream upon its arrival. To have it be perfect and glorious, to not have to say a word about it, to simply hold it in your arms, to extend it to the world with just one word of imploration: look.”
