“Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?'-'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.'-'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?'-'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”

“...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”

“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.”

“It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.”

“He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.”

“I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.”

“When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.”