“Why does she even bother sleeping? I heard Elizabeth ask quietly. Youd think by now shed stop trying. We dont need it.I paused, waiting to hear Miakas response. She must have a really wonderful dre...”

“Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.”

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”

“Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.”

“I felt a warm hand touch my forehead. And then my cheek. I held my act steady though Akinlis touch made me feel more than awake.Where in the world did you come from, you beautiful, silent girl? he ...”

“He grinned back at me, and I remembered how normal hed made me feel the first time wed met. Here, once again, he wasnt bothered by my silence. And I suddenly realized what made me feel so uncomfort...”

“I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”

“The past can not be cured.”

“News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another we...”

“When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he s”

“The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, be...”

“He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and pass...”

“Trust is the strongest weapon.”