“Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.”

“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”

“You couldn't make up something that looked so right.”

“And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.”

“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”

“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”

“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”