Such she often felt herself--struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: "But this is what I see; this is what I see," and so to clasp some miserable remnant of her vision to her breast, which a thousand forces did their best to pluck from her.

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest …”

“Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she…”

“She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything…”

“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is una…”