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“Serenity did something I wished it wouldn’t. It was as if my feeling safe cleared a path for some of the most awful memories [. . .]. When you’re fighting for survival, you don’t process trauma; you bury it. Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough” (183).

“‘Hate you!’ I said. ‘When I have fifty proper reasons for hating you, already; and only—‘
Only love you, I wanted to say. I didn’t say it, though. What can I tell you? If she could still be proud, then so, for now, could I… I didn’t need to say it, anyway: she could read the words on my face” (582).

“Why must you [steal from me]?”
“For villainy’s sake. Because you were right, before: my face is a false one, my mouth an actress mouth, my blushes tell lies, my eyes—my eyes—“ (524).

“Not to read! It seems to me a kind of fabulous insufficiency—like the absence, in a martyr or Saint, of the capacity for pain” (257)

“He made me like a book. I am not meant to be taken, and touched, and liked. I am meant to be here, in a dim light, for ever!” (Waters 130)

“[Bagger] hears the marching orders, which kick off an orchestra of weary groans, jangled buckles, slorping boots, and clunking rifle butts, all of it contributing to a terrible crunch , an entire society gnashed between titan jaws, and beyond the murk, the Germans crunch that way, too, like an Iowa county fair contest, who can eat the most hamburgers, the most pie, the most world,” (Kraus 34)