“Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.”

“Hope means you keep holding on to things that won't ever be so again.”

“None of this is real, my dear. Not this house, not this conversation, not those shoes you're wearing--which are several years out of style if you're trying to reacclimatize yourself to the ways of ...”

“There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasnt done yet. She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs t...”

“Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that.”

“I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the...”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“They don't want a princess. They want a war queen.”

“No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.”

“It is not as if I want to be a princess. Since I was four years old I've spent every birthday, shooting star, wishbone, and lost eyelash wishing I did not have to be a princess!”

“Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

“Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds a...”

“A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other...”