“My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.”

“It had been a couple of years and I was neither dead, nor undead, which I ranked as an achievement.”

“...the only real fool is the last fool”

“Only people you trust can ever really betray you, Amber.”

“This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate; to see your loves pass before you like the days of summer while your heart still beats. To keep your vigil in the shadows and rise again with every sun.”

“You tread a difficult path, Amber. You are none of the things they will think you are. In the end, you will have no guides but yourself.”

“...I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”