The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.