“Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice—but let it be.”

“There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.”

“Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.” He smiled...”

“Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.”

“...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.”

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”