“Ninjas don't wish upon a star, they throw them.”

“A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.”

“Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”