The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

Looking for who I am is who I am.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?