“I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.”

“My dad had always said to not trust something unless its taken a tumble in the dirt. Hed meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didnt exist for humankind any more.”

“Youve never had someone you love snatched, I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.”

“Mom used to tell us stories of these bogeymen when we were kids, and Lizzy would crawl into my bed so she could fall asleep. Stories of the monsters who forced us underground, and when the force fi...”

“Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.”

“Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined.”

“You matter.”

“It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.”

“They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed ...”

“The divine arts; Humankind, Nature, Stars, Sun, Moon, Sea....!”

“The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.”

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

“At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.”

“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”

“This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it i...”