Never trust anyone under one hundred!

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

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