“It seemed impossible that she would never see him again, never hear his voice, never feel his touch.
Where is he? she kept thinking. Where’s he gone?”
“Mariana was still in love with him – that was the problem. Even though she knew she’d never see Sebastian again – even though he was gone for good – she was still in love and didn’t know what to do with all this love of hers. There was so much of it, and it was so messy: leaking, spilling, tumbling out of her, like stuffing falling out of an old rag doll that was coming apart at the seams.”