"To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough to..."
- Jessica Khoury
"You understand why you must go through with this marriage.”“You say you couldn’t live with yourself if anything happened to Caspida. Yet you ask me to live with myself, knowing I sentenced you to this..."
"It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it."
"Find me, my thief."
"For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind."
"Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity."
"It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all."
"The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create."
"She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe."
"I rest my head on his shoulder, feeling his heart beating against me. I wish I could gather time around us, slowing the minutes, making them last a lifetime.“I was born on the island kingdom of Ghedda..."