“… and then she realized: they WERE all alike!”

“She looked at him with loathing. "I knew you were crazy," she said. "But I didn't realize you were absolutely, spectactularly out of your goddamned mind.”

“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”

“I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched”

“the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.”

“Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.”

“Now that she realized she had been waiting for him — she did not like that.”

“She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.”

“This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”