“The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.”

“He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.”

“Although I admired scholarship so much in Cleric, I was not deceived about myself; I knew that I should never be a scholar. I could never lose myself for long among impersonal things. Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land and the figures scattered upon it. While I was in the very act of yearning toward the new forms that Cleric brought up before me, my mind plunged away from me, and I suddenly found myself thinking of the places and people of my own infinitesimal past.”

“I fight everyday to not let the past overtake me. Sometimes I win, sometimes it does.”

“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist”

“There is something so beautiful about you Avalene Vangeretta. You make my blood rush and I can't think when I see you. No matter how hard I fight it...my body reacts at the slightest thought of you."~Alec”