" Makepeace was gradually getting a better sense of Bear's ways. He was not always awake in her mind. A lot of the time, he was asleep, and then it was as of he were not there at all. He was more likely to be awake and restless during the grey times of early morning and twilight, but he could not be predicted. Sometimes Bear would surface without warning. His emotions would giddily spill into hers. Her senses would be flooded with his. Bear generally seemed to live in the present, but he carried his memories like forgotten bruises. Now and then he would knock against one of them, and tumble bemused into an abyss of pain. "

― Frances Hardinge