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"Do you know what I mean? Perhaps if you can accept the pain that almost kills you, you can use it, you can become better [...] Otherwise, you just get stopped with whatever it was that ruined you and you make it happen over and over again and your life has - ceased, really - because you can't move or change or love any more."

"When she had been safe and respectable, so had the world been safe and respectable; now the entire world was bitter with deceit and danger and loss; and which was the greater illusion? [...] Richard had been her protection, not only against the evil in the world, but also against the wilderness of herself. And now she would never be protected again."

"He knew that Yves' silences meant that he was fighting some curious war of his own, was coming to some decision of his own; [...] oddly enough, for it seems not to be the way we live now, for Eric, merely hearing Yves' footfalls at his side, feeling Yves beside him, and watching that changing face, was joy enough - or almost joy enough."

"She slept. He felt that she was sleeping partly in order to avoid him. [...] He felt that she had decided, long ago, precisely where the limits were, how much she could afford to give, and he had not been able to make her give a penny more."