“We were all basically alone, and despite what all his studies had shown what was mistaken for closeness was just a case of mitosis.”

“-So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking; -Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;-Aren't we all, I said;-”

“Miracles do happen. You just admitted to a mistake. What was your mistake? Not f-cking me sooner?''It was my mistaken-' he turned and met her eyes '-thinking we had all the time in the world.”

“It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.”

“Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.”

“He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.”