“The line of his cheek bunched in a smile. My heart made a little lurch toward him. But if I let it move, it would spill its cargo into the sea of pain, so I held it still again, tight and cold.” LovePainRelationshipsSadness Book:Listening at the Gate Source: Listening at the Gate
“From cold or horror I could not speak. The sodden blanket was heavy, the coldness in my heart flowed out and turned the whole world cold—there was no warm place. The thoughts I had frozen in order not to feel them grew monstrous, freezing everything else.” MindFearSadnessSurvivalFrozen Book:Listening at the Gate Source: Listening at the Gate
“But behind Nall’s abandoned face he was sinking, as if he held a stone that he would not let go of though it dragged him under.” FearSadnessSorrowDepression Book:Listening at the Gate Source: Listening at the Gate