“Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.”

“What happened?""During the kiss?""No, with you and Caroline.""Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.”

“And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.”

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.”

“I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.”

“I'm her sister," I say. "Caroline Taylor,”