“Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.”

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”

“I thought about the way I felt in Astrid’s presence, the unity. I was a part of something that was larger than myself, a network of shared energy and camaraderie that flowed between the Valkyries.”

“The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us. ”

“There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.”

“This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”