“[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.”

“[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.”

“A single white roes goes with everything, doesn´t it, and it symbolizes purity.”

“He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of his consciousness, he asks himself if the face that appears there, disfigured by the water, is his own. The singularity of his being, which is pure sensation in children, becomes a problem and a question”

“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”

“He awoke each morning with familiar shapes at the edges of his vision, could feel memories nearby, but by the time breakfast came, they were already fading. By dinner, they were lost. It left Troy with a sadness, a cold sensation, and a feeling like a hollow stomach--different from hunger--like rainy days as a child when he didn't know how to fill his time. It was the pain of a chronic boredom mixed with the discomfort of time wasted.”