“We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.”

“She was a bookish person who'd never been exposed to books: she was gifted with astute powers of observation, but her thoughts and feelings weren't filtered through those that she'd read, those that had been written before. She had a unique way of seeing the world and a manner of expressing herself that caught Juniper unawares and made her laugh and think and feel things anew.”

“It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?”

“A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.”

“All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.”

“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”

“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types.""Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness!”