“They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.”
“Navigating this new world made Sunny feel like Dorothy stepping out from her black-and-white house into a world of color so bright it didn't seem real. Everything in this world seems like a dream.”
“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth … … a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings.”
“Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its case.”
“The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends.”
“Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream”