That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

I was glad when the invalids were executed