I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

“He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath …”

“I kept thinking that it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I…”

“It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thi…”

“This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all…”