“HE IS HALF OF MY SOUL, AS THE POETS SAY.”
"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
"WE WERE LIKE GODS AT THE DAWNING OF THE WORLD, AND OUR JOY WAS SO BRIGHT WE COULD SEE NOTHING ELSE BUT THE OTHER."
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”