"But once, just once, to know how it would end, to know where to go, what to do. How different that would be from the bloody, straggling ends of the war he keeps fingering, hoping they’ll show him a way out into life."
A left-out bit from "Voiceless"...
"It’s as if the earth’s on the verge of hurtling over its edge with her in its grasp."
"‘The way things were’ was a season in itself."
" The Department of Mysteries had a chamber for everything. Did it have a room for mysteries themselves? A proper place for all those things that were so hard to explain or understand, things without names or words to describe them? Things that lay between the big mysteries of Love and Death and Time, little things that could, like the pulse of a second hand on a clockface, could bear so irrevocably on the big mysteries themselves?"
"She regards him for a moment longer with an inscrutable look in her eyes, a foggy dawn determined to keep the sun a secret."
"One year of our lives can’t hurt, can it?" she whispers.
"She will never forget this, never, her first taste of him, a bloodied kiss on the sands of a wailing sea."
"But this time I can’t help you."
"Nothing happened the way we thought it would, but some things stayed the same."
“Because I felt it. While you were missing and ever since then, I’ve had this feeling inside my skin, like I can hear the blood flowing inside me. Professor Tiresias figured it out.” Epilogue up.
"The thing is, with commas, you can never know. No matter how much you wonder, you won’t know until it’s over, either way--continuation or fullstop."
"...As if being in love is an incomplete sentence unless it was with each other."
"This is their nightly ritual, the day falling out around them, tangles smoothed out, knots eased through, until it’s just them."