Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.

And what was it about the dark that made her question things she’d never questioned before, in the day.

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

Children are geniuses.