What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.
You’re the human equivalent of a migraine.
She could argue with the wall in China and win.
Each of us has magic within us. We take our quirks from the universal store.
You see, this is the problem with conversation,” Solon said with a sigh, and looked at Ander. “All we ever do is talk about ourselves. Let us stop before we bore each other, well, to tears.
You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don’t learn to engage with the world.
We often seek the companionship of others who display aspects we’ve repressed to the depths of our shadow.
Being left out was a kind of freedom...
Lilith blinked, making out what looked like a dark cave at sunset, the sky fiery with streaks of red and orange.
Letting go of someone you loved wasn’t hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn’t let them go they were still gone.
Beneath his exhaustion, he radiated a serenity that suggested nothing in this place could touch him. Maybe nothing in this world could touch him. It was one of the most beautiful things she’d ever seen. She wanted to be that way, too: at peace with herself, autonomous, free.
If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.
Love makes people the best versions of themselves.
If the hero does not match the story, it is the hero, not the story, who must be rewritten.
We all carry pieces of our journeys within us,” Roland said. “We all learn from our mistakes. Who’s to say we don’t deserve happiness?
Things are precious when they’re hard to come by.
Their only communication so far had included one middle finger and a couple of dirty looks.
There were no monsters, her parents assured her, but Luce’s repeated insistence on the presence of something wobbly and dark had gotten her several appointments with the family eye doctor, and then glasses, and then appointments with the ear doctor after she made the mistake of describing.
She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.
There’s more to life than teenage passion.