Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts. — M. John Harrison

Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.

People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.

“Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.”

The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.