“hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me.”
“Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.”
“An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.”
“I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...”
“Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.”
“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”