My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

I know I would crumble if I lost you.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.