Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.