Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.