Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.

Death hath no dominion.