You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.