“I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the ...”

“I ate and read my book, this particular kind of fantasy novel that I secretly loved. It was my favorite thing to do eat and read. The world just shut up for a while.”

“That night I think we were trying to fight against death, against boredom and banality, against everything that made us cry and stare at our futures full in the face with dread. We drank and played...”

“I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.”

“Everyone said they were witches. I desperately wanted to believe it.”

“I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature.”

“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”

“I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish a...”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”