“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

“What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”

“I do like the world quite a lot.”

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”

“I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”

“My friends call me by my name.""You don't have any friends.""I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you t...”

“That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.”

“Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”