“Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.”
“We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.”
“To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.”
“Like, you don't get to move one and just blow your past away. Everything you do, every new move you make is all tangled up in everything you did.”
“A well told story can be magic. Let me show you...”
“Really, Agatha, you might have told me.”"Told you what?” Mairelon said. “That my ward was once a street thief? I didn’t think it was a secret.”“A street thief?” Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. “How horrid.”“I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard”, Miss Matthews said with conviction.”