“Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered with.”
“I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies”
“Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything - that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone.”
“Dumb as he looked, he never missed an insult.Dr. Rowan musing about Simple Silas”
“I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me.”
“And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.”