“It's your life, not your death, that defines you.”

“They rode through the quiet streets. The rain had stopped and an early morning mist fell around them under the streetlights. Victor remembered that his ancestors had believed this was a magical tim...”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?”

“Ironically, the first time he played it, he experienced his first dream vision with his own flame jumelle, Rune and saved her from drowning. Thereafter he decided that must be the magic the instru...”

“This cant be a coincidence, and theres no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.”