The color white is the absence of memory.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.