“I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”

“I live, breathe, and dream success. I am truly my greatest investment!”

“That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.”

“In sleep, my sister and I found a common breath. In dreams, we knew the moon.”

“That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.”

“He had never bothered to count time before, but he started to now, and it began with counting each breath she took.”