“Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I’d left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.”
“There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past.”
“He remembered that right after that, he had stolen a loaf of bread from a delicatessen counter and had taken it home and devoured it, feeling that the world owed a loaf of bread to him, and more.”
“Even after the entire world has taken me apart, there's still a part of me left for you.”
“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
“--that person who'd taken him apart and left a piece missing that none of us could find.”