“Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things”
“Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now... Or possibly just go somewhere and swallow my face.”
“We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?”
“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
“Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?”
“I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die."Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just... don't mess it up.”