“So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.”

“There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger”

“I don't want to. Believe me. But I can't help it. Rose said in time, I'll learn the control to keep his feelings out, but I can't do it now. And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place. What happened between him and Rose . . . it tears him apart.”

“You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine”

“He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.”

“I closed my eyes against the suddensorrow that someone I knew so well should be someone who consistently brought me so much grief.”