“Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.”

“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally. It is a spectacle we immortals enjoy, this minor daily resurrection, often we will gather at the ramparts of the clouds and gaze down upon them, our little ones, as they bestir themselves to welcome the new day. What silence falls upon us then, the sad silence of our envy.”

“She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.”

“It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.”

“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”

“We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.”