It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?