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.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

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?