“Fate, I think, is a thief.”

“Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.”

“I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.”

“I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.”

“I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.”

“I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.”

“I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.”