“Light to darkness, Jenny. Darkness to light. It's always been that way.”

“It means she chose light over darkness. I want people to know that so they'll always remember.I always will.Bonnie McCullough”

“All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she'd ever experienced. An old, old recognition. Something inside her knew him from a time when girls took skin bags to the river to get water, a time when panthers walked in the darkness outside mud huts. From a time before electric lights, before candles, when darkness was fended off with stone lamps. When darkness was the greatest danger of all.”

“They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.”

“Interesting things happen in the dark…sometimes.”

“There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.”

“There is no good and evil, only black and white. But either black or white on its own is boring, Jenny. If you mix them you get so many colors— so many colors...”