“Only one person had ever captured Erich and kept him, and that person held him captive even in death.”
“I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.”
“Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.”
“It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.”
“No one had ever taught him - and he had never imagined the necessity of learning - how to betray the one person whom you truly cared for in life. The only person who genuinely loved you. How to break that person's heart, whether it be tomorrow, or five years or ten years in the future.”
“People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.”