“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
“The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”
“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
“You are mine now, I am not going to let anything happen to you.”
“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.”
“I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”