“There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.”

“I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.”

“But for a moment I stay there, suspended above the green swell of the land as though thrown up onto the crest of a wave, seeing for the first time a break in the at horizon. For this the boats cros...”

“We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.”

“I never wanted to be safe, I wanted to be good.”

“I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”