"Romantic: one who professes to prefer the thorns to the rose."

"You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound."

"Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that dis…"

"In a rainstorm, everyone quickly runs down the street with umbrellas, raincoats, newspapers over their head…"

"She had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled…"

"People here cannot conceive of worlds where dæmons are a silent voice in the mind and no more. Can you imag…"

"She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting…"