“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.”

“You're nobody's rainbow. You're nobody's princess. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”

“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.”