“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”

“...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”

“We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.”

“The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.”

“The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself.”

“There was something of the beautiful failure about her.”

“The watchers below pulled their breath in all at once. The air suddenly felt shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.”