“Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.”

“The world is alive with words”

“He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.”

“If I didnt look too closely, I wouldnt see that Tiras wasnt there. If I didnt breathe too deeply, I wouldnt feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didnt move too quickly, I wouldnt reach any ...”

“I have all the power, but you will destroy me. Only your walls, Lark. He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew hed find me there hiding from him.”

“Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.”

“You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love.”

“She wondered how it would feel to be beautiful and have it taken away. How much harder would it be than never knowing what it felt like in the first place?”

“True beauty, the kind that doesnt fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the earth that create...”

“The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.”

“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted ...”

“Love is the beauty of being.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”