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“For the first time he considers the full emotional dimensions of the day. His life is changing but his parents lives are changing too. Like a habitat, abruptly deprived of a major species, the hous...”
“Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, wh...”
“What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”
“The restraints were nothing, like paper. The rivets popped from the table and shot across the room. First his arms and then his legs. The room was dark but hid nothing from his eyes, because the da...”
“The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch. Sometimes this was easy, all you had to do was step onto it, the train was plush and comfortable and full of people...”
“And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.”
“Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'."To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.”
“Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say a man because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a ...”
“Last night they came again. The soldiers had set up a defense perimeter, but there were simply too manythey must have come by the hundreds of thousands, a huge swarm that blotted out the stars. Thr...”
“Absolution is not the same as understanding.”
“All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.”
“What is home but a place where you are truly known?”
“So, at the last, a story.”
“Behind every great hatred is a love story.”
“It's not that I don't believe you," Peter managed. "I'm sorry. It's just that...it's only a story.""Perhaps." She shrugged. "And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. ...”
“It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.”
“Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?”
“I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.”
“But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all of it mixed together in my mind. No one's left who even knows my name. Folks call me Auntie, on a...”
“Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.”
