“Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away...and forgiveness d...”

“There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.”

“Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.”

“The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?”

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”

“How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?”

“Ironically, the first time he played it, he experienced his first dream vision with his own flame jumelle, Rune and saved her from drowning. Thereafter he decided that must be the magic the instru...”

“This cant be a coincidence, and theres no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.”