And it was not merely the dry hissing coil of the thirst that was quenched and dissolved, it was all my craving, all the want and misery and hunger that I had ever known.

“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out …”

“People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.”

“But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; an…”

“I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I c…”