“Taped on the wall was a hand-drawn picture- a stick figure with a bow on the head holding a litterbag.”
“Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.”
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
“Aidan was nowhere to be seen. She pictured him glowering in the shadows somewhere, breaking sticks or punching walls, or something equally useless.”
“Fill your head with the right pictures of me. Fill your head with the ones you'd hang on the wall.”
“I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.”