“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
“Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?”
“Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.”
“There were pockets within pockets, with a CorpSeCorps hand in each one of them.”
“She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.”
“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ”