“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.”
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“I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.”
“There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.”