“It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”

“It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

“It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.”

“Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.”