“It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284”

“I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency.p 284”

“...I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see.p 284”

“Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170”

“Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all.p 227”

“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth.p 290”

“You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.”