It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that__ already come true.

The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

This isn__ how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.

The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.