"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
"Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair ..."
"Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longe..."