“Inside the peach, there is a stone.”

“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.”

“Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.”

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

“I grew sodden with light; my skin on the inside glowed a dull red.”

“The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.”

“I don’t even close my eyes. Out there or inside my head, it’s an equal darkness. Or light.”