“I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.”

“I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard”

“Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything tohurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading.I did what she asked and I left. When I should have stayed.”

“The first time I didn’t say anything, because she shot me in the mouth.”

“Once she was separated from the cockles & clams, she found herself miraculously transformed into a Goddess. But she found herself different from the Goddesses & Nymphs of the sea because of the girdle. It clung to her body as a second skin, or as the shell clung to the cockle, & she had never been able to take it off. And thus, she herself had never known what she hid beneath the girdle.”

“Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.”