“You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.”

“Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.”

“Time … I will never run out of it.”

“I believe that if you can't be absolutely certain of the outcome of your choices, then what difference does it make which path you choose?”

“He is social, but not in large groups. "I don't go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk. I don't tend to like that kind of thing. I'd rather sit down with somebody and find a mutual topic of interest, and explore it in depth with that person, or maybe two or three people. Not a conversation that says how do you feel".”

“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”

“Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.”