"It is often said that things must get worse before they can get better, and there is truth in that."
- Ross Turner
"Death, child. It’s beckoning us both, my brother and I."
"Cruelty had been his weapon. But such a tool is dangerous and can spread further than you intend."
"He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine."
"He was like nothing she’d ever known.Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more."
"And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate."
"Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one."
"She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless."
"If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be."
"Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words."