“Her future will have been brought to a sad end if it is not incessantly, daily decorated.”

“I have to put the worst of her into her.”

“To learn more about them, people should use you. ”

“Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.”

“I should look like someone I would want to see.”

“Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!"Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.”

“For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time.The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”