“Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.”

“What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.”

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

“Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.”

“You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.”

“You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.”

“The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.”