“She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.”

“When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace.”

“She always camouflaged herself as a crowd. I've never been lonely, she said, but sometimes it's hard to think above the noise.”

“They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.”

“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”

“Her temperament has never been competitive; she immediately wants to disappear, to obliterate herself, to make way for them.”