“Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am.”
“Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.”
“In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.”
“I am an adult, but a damaged one.”
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.”
“I am the child I once was, and the adult I am today. I am all of my good points, and each of my bad. I am brave but afraid, healed but damaged, strong but helpless. I am everything I have admitted and all that I have denied. The person that I am right now in this moment is the product of every- thing I have ever been; the truth, the lies and everything in between.”