“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.”

“Doctor Mahfouz used to say living in the Drowned Cities made people crazy. Like it came in with the tide. When the water came up, so did the killing.”

“When asked why she had tried to kill herself, she said only, "It was a mistake.”

“There is a certain point—she has known this since her father-in-law’s long battle with heart disease—when a person begins to die in earnest. There is a hollowness about them. They begin to retreat. She has seen this, and she knows.”

“You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,” she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn’t said “abusive,” I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.”

“A Heart dies when it is not able to share its "Feelings" But A Heart kills it self when another Heart does not understand its "Fellings”