“There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.”
“It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the death of all dogs.”
“A woman's apathy is far more devastating than her wrath.”
“there is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been.”
“Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.”
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”