“I loved your world, Noah. It was a magical place, where there were stars and love, and there was hope. Hope. I dont think you know how it is not to have that. I stole some of yours. It was beautifu...”

“You can play the part for so long, wear the mask, say what people expect you to say. Fight for as long as there is air in your lungs. Fly if you have wings. But you can never be free from someone w...”

“Thats the trouble with you young people. Saying young as though it was a bad thing.Youre in too darn much of a hurry to notice.Notice what, exactly?The difference, shed replied slowly, as if I were...”

“But theres that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes theyre so heavy you cant walk.”

“That’s the trouble with you young people.” Saying young as though it was a bad thing.“You’re in too darn much of a hurry to notice.”“Notice what, exactly?”“The difference,” she’d replied slowly, as...”

“But theres that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes theyre so heavy you cant walk.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”