“She's alive, but only just.”
“And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.”
“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
“She was alive, and she was stuck in this fucking tunnel, and she had just broken a fuck of a hex ward, and now she was going to have to walk through the toad-door into who-the-fuck-knew-what with someone who touched her only under duress. Some days it just didn’t pay to get out of bed.”
“It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.”
“She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.”