“At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.”

“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

“I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.”

“That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.”

“I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed.”

“My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.”

“She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.”