“all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.”

“i go deeper into my head”

“when i wake up mornings alone it is more disturbing, when i imagine it could be the living things, that are going out of my life.”

“The wrecked mess of flesh had to hurt like hell and I was just starting to feel a little sympathy for Kujima when some distant corner of my brain sent me a reminder that he’d shot me, beaten me and was about to light me on fire.”

“I loved him right away," she said. "Almost on sight. Some things are so obvious when you look at them. And when that happens there isn't any choice.”

“All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with red and the pastures turned green.”

“Of course you know, this means war.”