“Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.”
“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”
“I became obsessed with the one question-when was it, when were we, irrevocable? When did all the little tumblers fall into place and our fate was locked in and it became impossible for us to be anything other than what we became? When was the guilty moment?”
“We were fine originally and lost that fine-ness. That's when we became defined.”
“When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.”
“When Søren touched her she became his. When Wesley touched her, she became herself.”