“I didn't want to be different.I wanted to be able to laughBut I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved . . . and to love.”

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

“You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

“I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.”

“If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.”

“They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.”