“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.”

“The world is alive with words”

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

“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...”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”