“...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.”
“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”
“...the dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.”
“I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.”
“Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.”
“In the collision between the past and future is a spark known as now.”