“Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.”

“Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.”

“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”

“Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.”

“There was something empty at the bottom of all her words.”

“I was ten years old, and I was still playing conkers and knocking off sweet shops while she was sitting on the linoleum floor of her cell sawing at her wrists with a bit of broken glass she'd got from heaven-knows-were. Cut her fingers up, too, but she did it all right. They found her in the morning, sticky, red, and cold.”

“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.”