The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.