“There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.”

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

“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”

“There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.”

“There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.”

“I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.”

“Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.”