Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.