“And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime.That is not the color of red at all.”

“Spring. Blooms break forth from the startled earth. The sky laughs. The trees, abashed, dress themselves in verdant green. And the heavens are lush with starts. Redeem the time, the stars sing down. Redeem the dream.And the boy waking in the land of broken rocks, the dry land wet with spring rain, waking in the place where two dreams cross--the dream where seeds grow into trees of gold and the dream of the box that he cannot open.”

“But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.”

“Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.”

“I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.”

“In the name of all that is holy, tell me why God felt the need to make a hell. It seems so redundant.”

“She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all”