"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."

"We just are, we just be, like rocks besides the road."

"In fact, he seemed supremely nice to her now, a kind of savior."

"A bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."

"Just go out, like the flame of a candle..."

"The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk."

"...and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust."

"...Winnie tipped the water onto the cracked earth at the gate. It sucked it in immediately..."

"If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all coming running like pigs to slops."

"...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."

"Everything is a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping."