Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.