She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

A thing named is a thing tamed.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.