“I have to put the worst of her into her.”

“Her future will have been brought to a sad end if it is not incessantly, daily decorated.”

“I should look like someone I would want to see.”

“Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.”

“To learn more about them, people should use you. ”

“Fred started to follow, but Nita caught him in cupped hands, holding him back for a moment. "Fred! Did we do right?" Even here she couldn't keep the pain out of her question, the fear that she could have somehow have prevented his death. But Fred radiated a serene and wondering joy that took her breath and reassured her and filled her with wonder to match his, all at once. Go find out, he said.”

“I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.”