"Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena."
"Knowing it and seeing it are two different things."
"Do you find this...distracting?"
"Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!"
"You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future."
"Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree."