“If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them.”
“When giants fought, ants were crushed.”
“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
“New steps. That's what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God's plan for their lives.”
“I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope.”
“Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.”