"There are no pictures of Ambrose, there wasn't time for that. Here's a picture of his crib still warm" (Prologue: Silent Pictures, pg. 10.)

"All the pictures of Kathleen were destroyed. All except one. And it's been put away" (Prologue: Silent Pictures, pg. 11.)

"He would have enough money to buy a great house; for ready-made things, and a wife with soft hands; for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books" (Book 1: The Garden; Section 1: To Seek His Fortune, pg. 17.)

"It's a terrible thing for a mother to know that her daughter will not have the happiness she herself has had" (Book 1: The Garden; Section 2: His Left Eye, pg. 24)

"It wasn't that he didn't love her anymore, he did. It was just that, recently, it had struck him that other people might think there was something strange. They might think he'd...