Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.