Jessica Khoury quotes:

Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.

Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks. I shake my head. It's py'a. We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. You are my heart, Pia.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Now, when he touches me, I feel nothing but Eio, pure and whole and constant. Now, when I look into his eyes, I don't see death- but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone's gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what's in his eyes... he understands whats in mine.

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.