Chapter 39

• "Please," she pleaded, distressed, "say something."
• But nothing came out of our mouths. I couldn't. It was agonizing to see how Max's silence seemed to sentence something. But even that, he just watched Afrodita with a serious, mute expression and glassy eyes.
• I realized that my life no longer made any sense. They had taken away the most important thing I had known. The most important thing had withered away. A black hole opened in my chest. I recognized that feeling, that state, and I knew that when it opened, it wouldn't close again. I wasn't sure that it would.