“Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.”
“We live through sound and light—through our technologies.”
“In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.”
“Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.”
“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
“We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.”