“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.”

“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.”

“...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.”

“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.”