“The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.”

“Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.”

“Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.”

“Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.”

“...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.”

“...purification was the point of such pain.”

“... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.”

“Today each of you is the object of the others reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”

“Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”

“Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.”

“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair”

“A vampire is like a Rose. They are beautiful, yet harmful.”

“Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.”