"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."
"Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!"
"Knowing it and seeing it are two different things."
"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again."
"An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are."
"There are much worse games to play."