“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.”
“Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.”
“I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.”
“Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.”
“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
“I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.”