Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.
I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.
I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.
I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.
