“She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.”

“It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.”

“There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would.”

“They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.”

“She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.”