There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.