“Family is never really gone.”

“Its all in my mind.Im in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.”

“Or maybe Im not going crazy. Maybe Im some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and Im just breaking down.Im not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. Youre not in your right mind, dear, he says. No, ...”

“As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, Im discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large en...”

“And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.”

“She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fireno, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.”

“But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we dont say were sorry. We promise to make amends.I will.Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we wont repeat the same mist...”

“There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.”

“To think I actually talked to the boy who nearly got you killed," Ivy mutters, shuddering with disgust. "I'm so sorry I did.""It's okay. You didn't know," I reassure her as we take a seat on some p...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”