And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

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

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.