“It's a strange world”

“It's the strange world.''The strangest.”

“Strange world isn't it?”

“It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul."The strangest," he agreed.”

“His expression was composed; there was only the slightest hardening of his topaz eyes. 'She's been seeing Jasper in a strange place, she thinks, near his former. . .family. But he has no conscious intentions to go back.' He sighed. 'It's got her worried.”

“I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger, like more real, more myself, because it's my world too. It's where I belong.”

“My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.”