“Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.”

“Hate and love were both conceived in fear, perhaps that was why they were nearly the same thing, but only one was steeped in hope.”

“True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.”

“That alone would be Eddie's triumph in all this; that she had taught the kelpie suffering.”

“Perhaps her only legacy would be that she had known something immortal, and while eternity may still belong to God alone, not all things were enslaved by time.”

“How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.”

“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.”