I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.