“Shed passed the fear barrier, and shed lived, and shed discovered not certain death, as shed imagined, but impossible splendor. What other beautiful things had fear been hiding from her? What else ...”

“The old fear was there, the grapnel anchor lodged in her chest, the thing that wanted to pull her back away from the edge and whisper no, no, no. Yet there was a new thing: a lure. Something down i...”

“As she fell, Esther wasnt worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasnt worried about hitting the shallows and pin diving to the ocean floor and shattering her...”

“Esther supposed, as they held each other under a threadbare carpet of stars, that this was how it must always feel in the beginning. Yet even there, next to him, the most excellent person in the un...”

“The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.”

“How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see my...”

“..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.”

“When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagi...”

“Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.”