“Family is never really gone.”

“Its all in my mind.Im in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.”

“Or maybe Im not going crazy. Maybe Im some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and Im just breaking down.Im not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. Youre not in your right mind, dear, he says. No, ...”

“As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, Im discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large en...”

“And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.”

“She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fireno, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.”

“I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.”

“emotionless tone hurting as much as the news”

“emotionless tone hurting as much as the news”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.”

“I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's ...”