In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.