“In practice. . .being human was all I knew. The future beyond that was a big, dark abyss that I couldn't know until I leaped into it.”

“No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.”

“The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free.”

“I was living with this sense that there was something going on, something important, but I didn't know what it was. It was like...I knew the secret was there, and it was a dark one, but I just couldn't reach it. Nearly drove me mad.”

“On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.”

“She was scared about leaving everything, and I got that, but I also knew you couldn't start living in the new place until you said fuck-all to the old.”