“It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.”
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
“People had warned me about the culture shock of going to Africa. Nothing prepared me for the culture shock of coming the other way. No matter how much I talked no-one understood what I was saying.”
“Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.”
“When Michael pulled away, Eva was beyond shocked to see tears in his eyes."I told myself I would be strong, that I would let you go if you wished it, but I cannot. Stay with me, Eva. Don't leave me.”
“I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.”