“You dont know anything about me.No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are,...”

“You dont approve? Joan asked, picking up on Delphines tone. Their stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors.What do you mean? said Bea.Certainly sometimes a good little character would find a la...”

“How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didnt occasionally say yes?”

“Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted.”

“She was here and the world, for so long ugly and deformed, was all at once itself again. She was taking a glass of sweet wine from one of the waiters. She was smiling. She was breathing. She was he...”

“The woman above him had tumbled out of his dreams, and now stood like a half-waking ghost, a photograph double exposed, showing him in one moment the fallacy of his past as it bled into his future....”

“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?Her stomach twisted. No. She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadnt had the gift before? That she couldnt have used it against him? I would ne...”

“If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.”

“Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when its a little closer to being perfect.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.”

“Hed only ever seen her twice, only talked to her once, but as he now gazed upon her, he realized that hed missed her all day long.”

“I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.”