“She was so like a sister that I forgot we'd chosen each other as friends.”
“You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other. ”
“If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
“We'd both been pushing at the walls of our secret world, pushing at each other. We'd give each other everything we could.”
“Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure of this that they could say anything.”
“You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.”