“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”
“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
“Life itself is too painful to bear, Madeline had said. Sometimes, suffering feels like an escape.”
“And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.”
“Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition. ”
“How does the Authority usually handle storms like this?” “Not well.”