“She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.”

“She hadn’t wanted this and yet deep down inside, she knew that she did, and that was what scared her more than anything.”

“I fell in love with her the moment she was late, though neither one of us knew it at the time because she hadn’t arrived yet.”

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“She lies on the stripped bed, looking up at the pinhole in the roof. The sky is blue. Clouds pass over. Sky, air, clouds, the sun and moon; it's fine. It's the same as it ever was. She stares at the small spot of blue. She sleeps. She dreams. She wakes up feeling a little more and a little less like herself.”

“There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place”