I can't believe this," Mary said, whispering urgently. "Every time I talk to you I think I've heard the worst, and then you come along and say someth… - Lisa Goldstein

She felt that she had seen beneath the mask of the world, and she could not quite believe in that mask again.

“You can’t ask questions like that,” André said. “The unconscious has its own logic.” But he looked a little puzzled, a little too tied to the world of logic and order.

She was already caught in the enchanted net of the bookshelves. She walks down rows of books about history, science, cooking, a large section devoted to car repair. Her feet on the linoleum floor, and the young man turning pages, made the only sounds in the store. It’s like drinking, Claire thought, delighted, running her fingers over the spines. Worse, because the spell lasts longer. If you read, don’t drive.