I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.

It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.

She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling.

Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.