“The further south the throng went, the more reasons it discovered. Vendettas once sworn for half-forgotten offenses were remembered and invented with each passing blow. Everyone felt like a conduit of justice.”
“It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.”
“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”
“Remember live each day, as though it were your last, the mark you leave, your legacy, can't change once you have passed.”
“Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.”