“ليس الألم أسوأ ما فى الذكريات,بل الاحتفاظ بها وحدك..فالذكريات قد خلقت كى نعيشها مع الآخرين”

“He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself”

“Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.”

“-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.”

“There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship”

“What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?”

“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”