My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.