“A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.”

“We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.”

“Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.”

“The madness of youth made me unafraid.”

“You arent crazy, he says. What? Ive known you all your life, and youve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you. Those may be the best word...”

“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”

“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”

“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”

“Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.”