| Quote #1 "I dearly loved my master, son," she said. |
This dream sequence from the Prologue illustrates how love and hate are tightly bound.
| Quote #2 "Freedom," I said. "Maybe freedom lies in hating." |
The old lady in the dream sequence says that she was free enough to kill someone she loved, suggesting that freedom has more to do with love than hate.
| Quote #3 I returned the miniature, wondering what in the world had made him open his heart to me. That was something I never did; it was dangerous. First, it was dangerous if you felt like that about anything, because then you'd never get it or something or someone would take it away from you; then it was dangerous because nobody would understand you and they'd only laugh and think you were crazy. (2.65) |
The narrator does not express love for anything because it endangers the very thing he cares about.