Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.