“Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.”
“what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?”
“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”
“He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.”
“The world is a far greater place than I ever imagined. And it is yours.”
“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”