Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.