“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.”

“Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.”

“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.”

“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.”

“She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean,” Madame says.”

“She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.”

“Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.”