“I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.”
“no longer the lost, no longer the same , and i can see you starting to break”
“I love you,” I whispered.“I've loved you longer,” he said.”
“The longer you look the more you see," said the twins at the same time, "the more you see, the less you are.”
“She said he looked better. He insisted it wasn't true. Then both were silent. They ate carefully--lonely people no longer astonished by their loneliness.”
“If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes “longer” is "never.”