“Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.”

“He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.”

“If I didnt look too closely, I wouldnt see that Tiras wasnt there. If I didnt breathe too deeply, I wouldnt feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didnt move too quickly, I wouldnt reach any ...”

“I have all the power, but you will destroy me. Only your walls, Lark. He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew hed find me there hiding from him.”

“Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.”

“If I didn’t look too closely, I wouldn’t see that Tiras wasn’t there. If I didn’t breathe too deeply, I wouldn’t feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn’t move too quickly, I wouldn’t rea...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”