“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.”
“aware that he had lost some kind of contest but not entirely certain what it was.”
“The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the weather.”
“The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.”
“I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose”
“Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.”