“What a strange sensation to have the ground under your feet shift unexpectedly. One moment rock solid, the next quivering.”

“A single decision, a moment in time, and the ground could shift beneath your feet.”

“When your heart breaks, you can actually feel it, an agonizing stab of pain in a muscle that you know for a fact is just a glorified pump. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, the ordered universe changes, the solid ground beneath your feet becomes a slippery rock. The material world that seemed so safe and solid a moment ago becomes a shifting, ghostly place of shadows and mist. Matters that seemed settled and certain a long ago come suddenly unhinged, and you begin to doubt everything you ever knew to be true.”

“Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next”

“Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?”

“To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.”