“I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?”
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“Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?”
“Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.”
“I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.”
“this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.”