“The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.”

“When you're absolute beginners,
It's a panoramic view”

“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us”

“God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.”

“And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

“Flav, you look like a skeleton wrapped in electrical tape.”

“Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?”

“Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.”

“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”

“Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear.
He had said the sky should always be blue for her.”