“Words are such terrible carriers of thought. They’re like the dead bodies of thoughts that the other side studies forensically.”
“A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”
“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”
“Over my dead body was his first thought. His second? No, Over Carls.”
“on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?”
“To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.”