“Something irrevocable has happened. A circle has been cast on thewaters; a chain is imposed. We shall never flow freely again.”

“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has alreadyaccomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”

“If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.”

“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.”

“He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can bedone about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.”

“The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.”