“Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.”

“It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint.”

“This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”

“There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others.”