I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.

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

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.