“As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts.”
“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”
“She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.”
“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost).”
“She had broken, become something else. She didn't know what yet. Could you love someone in the process of changing? She did love Linh. As much as a ghost loved. The mind treacherous.”
“What if she let falling in love with him be as natural as gravity?”