“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood”

“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

“Violence does not always take physical form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

“Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”

“When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.”

“No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.”

“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.”