A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.