“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.”