“I just had a dream.” “About what?” “It’s hard to describe. It was very dreamy.”

“... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.”

“such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…”

“There were other things we noticed only at first, before we accepted them as a part of daily life. Then they got harder to describe, the way it’s hard to describe what it feels like to breathe air.”

“Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing that becomes everything there is. And what one sees is only a fraction of the trauma inflicted.”

“But I do get afraid. It's just that fear makes me sort of . . . angry and resentful, and I bite back at it. It's hard to describe."It isn't hard to describe, you idiot," Aud said. "It's called courage.”