“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”

“And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time...”

“I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too.”

“She doesn't know how to answer the man's question about why she snuck into the conch. She just feels like there's something she needs to protect. Some larval understanding, something cocooned inside her, that seems to get unspun and exploded with each passing year...That's the way to do it, the grown up voices whisper. Wear your skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret.”

“That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.”

“Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On”