I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.

Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.