"Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered, Oh God."
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
"Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die."
"Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie."
"You have my whole heart. You always did."
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."