“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”

“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”

“The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.”

“Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.”

“The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.”

“...love's shadow is jealousy.”

“There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.”

“He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.”

“I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.”

“I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.”