“That's what humanity does when faced with wolves. We take them in, tame them, and teach them how to keep us safe.”

“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?”

“Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.”

“When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.”

“-"your nocturna will never take another human, not for all the length of time in the universe and beyond. Your nocturna is wedded to your soul. Some even say"..."that it is the nocturni who carry souls into the Shadow World when we die, where they will keep watch over them and keep them safe forever. Some say that is nocturni's ultimate purpose.”

“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”