“It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now, attached to some other, more straightforward past.”

“No, everything was new now, just waiting to be discovered. And she would ... She was hungry for it, she would stuff the whole world into her mouth and bite down.”

“If everyone in the world was mad the world would make a whole much more sense”

“She was so close to what she wanted - the focus of her whole existence for more then a year now was just so close.My death.”

“After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.”

“He would be, she now knew, a whole lot dominant in bed and a little bit dirty.-Gabrielle about Adam”