- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.