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

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.