“I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.”

“I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.”

“If it were possible to treat everyone well, then anybody would do that. But sometimes we have to decide on an order. Liking everyone the same means that you don't like any one person. At least that's what I think.”

“What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.”

“Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it.And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling.Like stars...”

“I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.”

“She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.”

“The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.”

“Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.”