Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases. Arriane: Rule number two — don't listen to me!

She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear.

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.