“Now get out of my way, or finish life as a pile of cinders.”
“It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.”
“The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.”
“In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.”
“Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.”
“It is finished. Old Mitsima's words repeated themselves in his mind. Finished, finished....In silence and from a long way off, but violently. desperately, hopelessly, he had loved Kiakimé. And now it was finished. He was sixteen.”