“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.”
“Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.”
“Okay," Caroline said. She didn't sound as frightened as everybody else. That was the advantage to having no imagination, Bonnie thought. You couldn't picture the terrible things that were going to happen to you.”
“Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”
“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.”
“Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?""And you say there's no afterlife.”