Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

“For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or…”

“She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you we…”

“We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or m…”

“Maybe you're getting tired of existing on the whim of people.”