“Sometimes, Blister was thinking, the only person in the world she could really count on was herself, and that was not enough.”
“She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.”
“Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious, annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.”
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
“He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.”
“She had a wild imagination, and sometimes she could fool herself.”