“The raging burning pain was excruciating, causing me to throw up. I did however manage to remain conscious. Yay me!”

“Wow! She's hot." Morrison commented while gaping lewdly at the body lying supine on the bed.Insensitive asshole. I took a deep breath to calm my rising anger. "She's dead agent Morrison. I assure you she's very cold." I rebuked sharply.”

“I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”

“If it weren't for the friends I have in books, I'd have no friends at all.”

“I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.”

“And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.”

“Love isn't something you take from one to give to another. Love is to be shared among all; the more people we have in our family, the more love there will be to share.”