Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.