"To be lost in the woods is to be lost in time, she thought, and wondered if she’d just thought it or if she’d heard it somewhere before. It was true anyway, because the time of trees was so much slower than the time of people; a moment in the real world might be a month in the forest."
"If the colonel would pace, take out a folder, arrest warrants, a pistol, anything, Sienna would feel better, in the presence of a fellow human. Instead, only this icicle voice."
"There were twenty of them, huddled together in a truck that Lars Hansen used to transport vegetables from the farm to the market in Copenhagen."
"I banked my soul on a gay Hollywood romance—a fiction I never found."
" In the bedroom that Ralph grew up in, there’s a galaxy of glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling"
"If I’d been told in advance about the blood sacrifice, I would have made up an excuse not to attend the bachelorette party."
"Just smelling donuts makes me sick, and like I was saying, I have to eat one every day because it’s free."
"The air tasted like death; the inhuman, guttural cries coming from what sounded like a hundred tortured souls, rising and falling and rising again, made the hair on the back of her neck stand up."
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