“I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.”

“I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.”

“No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.”

“A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.”

“I know there are things you arent telling me. Big thingsSir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.”

“Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen," he says in response.”

“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took n...”

“Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.”

“Mattie was a grown woman in love, and they had to let her go, with their blessing, enduring what could not be helped. And there was no use in thinking of that fluid, glistening instant that always ...”

“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas....”

“It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more...”

“She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.”

“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”

“Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.”

“...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.”