“You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. ”

“You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast ?Well, that's what loves like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you're not careful, if you don't keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can't see what's happening to the people around you. You can't see your about to fall.”

“What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.”

“What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.”

“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.”

“I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?”

“You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle.”