“As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.”

“There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)”

“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

“My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.”

“Kiss her instinctively, slowly and softly, going further... intensely.”

“As I watched, I could see her bow getting deeper and deeper in the water with the foremast sticking up above the surface whilst her stern lifted higher and higher, till it was right out of the water.”

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”

“That a human being had died did not distress her. Had it been somebody she knew it would have upset her; she wasn’t a monster. Had it been somebody she cared about. But it was nobody she knew, and it would have been disingenuous to pretend that the death of somebody she didn’t know affected her on an emotional level.”