“There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.”

“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”

“quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.”

“One plus one equals both.”

“One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.”

“Ah, the inner eye blinks, and the spirit trembles, at the dangerous cost of seeing one's self as one is.”

“…but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn’t hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.”