“its better to stay who you are, than trying to be someone else”

“Would you change who you were to be with the one person you were meant to love?”

“Even if you fail, at least you had the balls to try.”

“You're daft,' she said.'Doan matter what you think of me,' he said generously. 'I'll never think less of you.”

“What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in some future years at things you hardly notice, that are happening in what is known to you as the present.”

“We need to find you a man. You're conjuring Cinderfellas.”

“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through it, they came past countless moons and suns. One laughed and briefly wore a scarf of raindrops in her hair, and then with wicked feet she kicked a cloud and caused rain to swamp a boat.”